US Patent Issued to Akeana on Dec. 16 for "Prioritized unified TLB lookup with variable page sizes" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,056, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Akeana Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Prioritized unified TLB lookup with variable page sizes" was invented by Abbas Rashid (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for address translation are disclosed. A processor core is accessed. The processor core includes a memory management unit (MMU) and a unified translation lookaside buffer (TLB) within the MMU. The TLB is configured to support a plurality of page sizes, and the processor core is coupled to an external memory system. The TLB receives a lookup request for a virtual memory address, wherein the virtual memory address c...