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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2011
Thomas Edison Chua Yu, Kanagawa, JP;
Hajime Yamashita, Kanagawa, JP;
Masayuki Ito, Kanagawa, JP;
Renesas Electronics Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Part of a plurality of ways are selected from among the ways according to a value of select data created based on tag address information which is part of address information, and cache tags are read. Further, when performing cache fill, the cache memory performs the cache fill on a cache entry selected from part of the ways according to the value of the select data. For select data used for selecting a way, e.g. parity data in connection with tag address information is used. A way to read a cache tag from is selected based on a value of parity data and further, the way of a cache entry to perform cache fill on is selected.