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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2012
Applicant:
James D. Dundas, Austin, TX (US);
Inventor:
James D. Dundas, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/38 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/3804 (2013.01); G06F 9/3806 (2013.01); G06F 12/0862 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present application describes a method and apparatus for prefetching instructions based on predicted branch target addresses. Some embodiments of the method include providing a second cache line to a second cache when a target address for a branch instruction in a first cache line of a first cache is included in the second cache line of the first cache and when the second cache line is not resident in the second cache.