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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2009
Alistair Robertson, Glasgow, GB;
Joseph Circello, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Mark Maiolani, East Kilbride, GB;
Alistair Robertson, Glasgow, GB;
Joseph Circello, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Mark Maiolani, East Kilbride, GB;
NXP USA, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A signal processing system comprising at least one master device at least one memory element and prefetch module arranged to perform prefetching from at least one memory element upon a memory access request to the at least one memory element from the at least one master device. Upon receiving a memory access request from the at least one master device, the prefetch module is arranged to configure the enabling of prefetching of at least one of instruction information and data information in relation to that memory access request based at least partly on an address to which the memory access request relates.