US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 17 for "Using retired pages history for instruction translation lookaside buffer (TLB) prefetching in processor-based devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,075, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Using retired pages history for instruction translation lookaside buffer (TLB) prefetching in processor-based devices" was invented by Ajay Kumar Rathee (San Jose, Calif.) and Conrado Blasco (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Using retired pages history for instruction translation lookaside buffer (TLB) prefetching in processor-based devices is disclosed herein. In some exemplary aspects, a processor-based device is provided. The processor-based device comprises a history-based instruction TLB prefetcher (HTP) circuit configured to determine that a f...