US Patent Issued to SKYECHIP BERHAD on May 12 for "Coherent system and a method of maintaining cache coherence using thereof" (Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,812, issued on May 12, was assigned to SKYECHIP BERHAD (Bayan Lepas, Malaysia).

"Coherent system and a method of maintaining cache coherence using thereof" was invented by Soon Chieh Lim (Pulau Pinang, Malaysia) and Yu Ying Ong (Pulau Pinang, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coherent system including a plurality of processing units; an interconnect comprising a snoop filter, a conflict buffer to track in-progress or outstanding snoop, and a snoop state machine for managing snoop requests and snoop responses between the snoop filter, the conflict buffer and the processing units; wherein the snoop filter is configured to copy c...