US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on Feb. 24 for "Prefetch kill and revival in an instruction cache" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,255, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Prefetch kill and revival in an instruction cache" was invented by Bipin Prasad Heremagalur Ramaprasad (Austin, Texas), David Matthew Thompson (Dallas), Abhijeet Ashok Chachad (Plano, Texas) and Hung Ong (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a processor including a CPU core, first and second memory caches, and a memory controller subsystem. The memory controller subsystem speculatively determines a hit or miss condition of a virtual address in the first memory cache and speculatively translates the virtual address to a physical address...