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Processor controlled interface with instruction streaming

US5027270A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateOct 11, 1988
Grant dateJun 25, 1991
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Expiry dateOct 11, 2008

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F12/0859
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A processor controlled interface between a processor, instruction cache, and main memory provides for simultaneously refilling the cache with an instruction block from main memory and processing the instructions in the block while they are being written to the cache.

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