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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2016
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Abstract
A circuit has an address generation circuit to produce a virtual address (VA) and an index signal and a multi-way cache circuit. The cache circuit has a plurality of Random Access Memory (RAM) groups and a hash function circuit to generate a hash output from the VA. Each RAM group includes RAMs respectively corresponding to the ways. The cache circuit selects, using the hash output, a selected RAM group of the RAM groups, and performs, using the index signal as an address, an operation using one or more RAMs of the selected RAM group. Controlling a multi-way cache circuit comprises determining a hash value using a VA, selecting, using the hash value, a RAM group from a plurality of RAM groups, and performing an operation by using one or more RAMs of the selected RAM group. The RAMs of each RAM group respectively correspond to the ways.