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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 25, 2013
Applicant:
Cavium, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Wilson Parkhurst Snyder, II, Holliston, MA (US);
Anna Karen Kujtkowski, Rochdale, MA (US);
Assignee:
Cavium, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0646 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and a system embodying the method for a memory address alignment, comprising configuring one or more naturally aligned buffer structure(s); providing a return address pointer in a buffer of one of the one or more naturally aligned buffer structure(s); determining a configuration of the one of the one or more naturally aligned buffer structure(s); applying a modulo arithmetic to the return address and at least one parameter of the determined configuration; and providing a stacked address pointer determined in accordance with the applied modulo arithmetic, is disclosed.