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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2013
Applicant:
Verisilicon Holdings Co., Ltd., Plano, TX (US);
Inventors:
Asheesh Kashyap, Plano, TX (US);
Tracy Nguyen, Lewisville, TX (US);
Assignee:
VERISILICON HOLDINGS CO., LTD., Plano, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 (2006.01); G06F 9/38 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30047 (2013.01); G06F 9/3802 (2013.01); G06F 9/3814 (2013.01); G06F 12/0862 (2013.01);
Abstract
A prefetch buffer and prefetch method. In one embodiment, the prefetch buffer has a main buffer embodied as a direct-mapped cache, and the prefetch buffer includes: (1) an alias buffer associated with the main buffer and (2) a prefetch controller associated with the main buffer and the alias buffer and operable to cause the alias buffer to store potentially aliasing cachelines of a loop body instead of the main buffer.