Page-tagging translation look-aside buffer for a computer memory system
US5133058A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 18, 1989 |
| Grant date | Jul 21, 1992 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 18, 2009 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2212/652
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A caching memory system including a translation look-aside buffer having a preselected number of lines of memory, each of said lines including storage for a virtual address and a physical address, apparatus for selectively varying the size of pages the virtual and physical addresses of which may be stored in the translation look-aside buffer, and apparatus for interrogating the virtual addresses to determine whether a requested address is stored in the translation look-aside buffer.
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