US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on Dec. 23 for "Pipelined read-modify-write operations in cache memory" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,015, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Pipelined read-modify-write operations in cache memory" was invented by Abhijeet Ashok Chachad (Plano, Texas), David Matthew Thompson (Dallas) and Daniel Brad Wu (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Providing memory bandwidth compression using compressed memory controllers (CMCs) in a central processing unit (CPU)-based system is disclosed. In this regard, in some aspects, a CMC is configured to receive a memory read request to a physical address in a system memory, and read a compression indicator (CI) for the physical address from a master directory a...