US Patent Issued to SiFive on March 3 for "Prefetching cache blocks based on an address for a group and a bit field" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,606, issued on March 3, was assigned to SiFive Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Prefetching cache blocks based on an address for a group and a bit field" was invented by Eric Andrew Gouldey (Fort Collins, Colo.), Wesley Waylon Terpstra (San Mateo, Calif.) and Michael Klinglesmith (Chambery, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Prefetch circuitry may be configured to transmit a message to prefetch one or more cache blocks of a group. The message may indicate an address for the group of cache blocks and a bit field that indicates the one or more cache blocks of the group to prefetch. In some implementations, the message may target a highe...