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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2018

Filed:

Mar. 22, 2016
Applicant:

Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;

Inventors:

Vahan Ter-Grigoryan, Cambridge, GB;

Hakan Lars-Goran Persson, Bjarred, SE;

Jesus Javier de los Reyes Darias, Littleport, GB;

Vinod Pisharath Hari Pai, Cambridge, GB;

Assignee:

Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/10 (2016.01); G06F 12/1009 (2016.01); G06F 12/1045 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/1009 (2013.01); G06F 12/1045 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1024 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1028 (2013.01); G06F 2212/507 (2013.01); G06F 2212/651 (2013.01); G06F 2212/681 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1225 (2013.01);
Abstract

A multiple stage memory management unit (MMU) comprises a first MMU stage configured to translate an input virtual memory address to a corresponding intermediate memory address, the first MMU stage generating a set of two or more intermediate memory addresses including the corresponding intermediate memory address; and a second MMU stage configured to translate an intermediate memory address provided by the first MMU stage to a physical memory address, the second MMU stage providing, in response to an intermediate memory address received from the first MMU stage, a set of two or more physical memory addresses including the physical memory address corresponding to the intermediate memory address received from the first MMU stage; the first MMU stage being configured to provide to the second MMU stage for translation, intermediate memory addresses in the set other than any intermediate memory addresses in the set for which the second MMU stage will provide a physical memory address as a response to translation of one of the other intermediate memory addresses in the set.


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