US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on July 7 for "Method of improving L1 icache performance with large programs" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,415, issued on July 7, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd. (Singapore).

"Method of improving L1 icache performance with large programs" was invented by Edward McLellan (Holliston, Mass.), Alexander Rucker (Stanford, Canada), Shay Gal-On (Mountain View, Calif.) and Srilatha Manne (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The hit rate of a L1 icache when operating with large programs is substantially improved by reserving a section of the L1 icache for regular instructions and a section for non-instruction information. Instructions are prefetched for storage in the instruction section of the L1 icache based on information in the non-ins...