US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on July 7 for "Pseudo-random way selection" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,312, issued on July 7, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Pseudo-random way selection" was invented by Abhijeet Ashok Chachad (Plano, Texas) and David Matthew Thompson (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a first request to allocate a line in an N-way set associative cache and, in response to a cache coherence state of a way indicating that a cache line stored in the way is invalid, allocating the way for the first request. The method also includes, in response to no ways in the set having a cache coherence state indicating that the cache line stored in the way is invalid, randomly selectin...