Managing prefetching from a data buffer
US6515672B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 23, 1999 |
| Grant date | Feb 4, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 23, 2019 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG09G2360/12
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method and apparatus for preventing over-prefetching from a buffer receives an address of a last data set item in a data buffer, and reads data from the data buffer into a read streamer buffer starting at a data buffer start address until the address of said last item.
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