US Patent Issued to Akeana on Aug. 11 for "Processing cache evictions in a directory snoop filter with ECAM" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,182, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Akeana Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Processing cache evictions in a directory snoop filter with ECAM" was invented by Madhavi Kondapaneni (Cupertino, Calif.) and Rabin Sugumar (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for maintaining cache coherency while sharing data among multiple processors are disclosed. Multiple coherent elements are arranged in an MxN mesh topology. An element can include a compute coherency block (CCB), and a coherency ordering agent (COA). The COAs include a directory snoop filter (DSF), an eviction content addressable memory (eCAM), a miss and snoop ...