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Apparatus and method for maintaining cache coherency in a memory system

US6314497A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 3, 1998
Grant dateNov 6, 2001
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Expiry dateDec 3, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F12/0804
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a computer system is disclosed. The computer system includes a processor, a memory, an inverting device, a storage device coupled to the inverting device and a device coupled to the storage device. The device receives byte enable information and inverted information and provides inverted byte enable information to the memory upon a write back operation to the memory.

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