US Patent Issued to Akeana on March 17 for "Out-of-order unit stride data prefetcher with scoreboarding" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,967, issued on March 17, was assigned to Akeana Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Out-of-order unit stride data prefetcher with scoreboarding" was invented by Rabin Sugumar (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments provide techniques for prefetching. A processor core that executes instructions out of order (OOO) is accessed. The processor core includes a local cache hierarchy, data prefetch logic, and a prefetch table and is coupled to an external memory system. A first load instruction with a first address is detected and causes a miss in the local cache hierarchy. Information pertaining to the first load i...