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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2012
Applicant:
Soft Machines, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Karthikeyan Avudaiyappan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mohammad Abdallah, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
SOFT MACHINES INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/30 (2006.01); G06F 9/345 (2006.01); G06F 9/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0862 (2013.01); G06F 9/00 (2013.01); G06F 9/30047 (2013.01); G06F 9/3455 (2013.01); G06F 9/383 (2013.01); G06F 12/0215 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for weak stream software data and instruction prefetching using a hardware data prefetcher is disclosed. A method includes, determining if software includes software prefetch instructions, using a hardware data prefetcher, and, accessing the software prefetch instructions if the software includes software prefetch instructions. Using the hardware data prefetcher, weak stream software data and instruction prefetching operations are executed based on the software prefetch instructions, free of training operations.