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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2014
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Arun Radhakrishnan, Austin, TX (US);
Kevin Lepak, Austin, TX (US);
Rama Gopal, Austin, TX (US);
Murali Chinnakonda, Austin, TX (US);
Karthik Sundaram, Austin, TX (US);
Brian Grayson, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
According to one general aspect, an apparatus may include a cache pre-fetcher, and a pre-fetch scheduler. The cache pre-fetcher may be configured to predict, based at least in part upon a virtual address, data to be retrieved from a memory system. The pre-fetch scheduler may be configured to convert the virtual address of the data to a physical address of the data, and request the data from one of a plurality of levels of the memory system. The memory system may include a plurality of levels, each level of the memory system configured to store data.