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Inventor: Steck; Randy L.
Address: Hillsboro, OR
No. of patents: 1
Patents:
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Date Issued |
| 5555392 |
Method and apparatus for a line based non-blocking data cache |
September 10, 1996 |
| A method and apparatus for providing a non-blocking cache that uses substantially less die area than a prior art non-blocking cache. In the present invention, pending count and ignore fill fields are added to each line of the cache. These fields are used in conjunction with a valid field |
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