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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2011
Applicant:
Thang M. Tran, Austin, TX (US);
Inventor:
Thang M. Tran, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
NXP USA, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 9/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0811 (2013.01); G06F 9/3851 (2013.01); G06F 12/0842 (2013.01); G06F 2212/601 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1225 (2013.01);
Abstract
A microprocessor system is disclosed that includes a first data cache that is shared by a first group of one or more program threads in a multi-thread mode and used by one program thread in a single-thread mode. A second data cache is shared by a second group of one or more program threads in the multi-thread mode and is used as a victim cache for the first data cache in the single-thread mode.