Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus and method for performing address translation
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Application No.: US15614644Application Date: 2017-06-06
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Publication No.: US10255195B2Publication Date: 2019-04-09
- Inventor: Michal Karol Bogusz , Quinn Carter , Andrew Brookfield Swaine
- Applicant: ARM LIMITED
- Applicant Address: GB Cambridge
- Assignee: ARM LIMITED
- Current Assignee: ARM LIMITED
- Current Assignee Address: GB Cambridge
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.
- Priority: GB1611291.4 20160629
- Main IPC: G06F12/10
- IPC: G06F12/10 ; G06F12/1027 ; G06F12/02 ; G06F12/1009

Abstract:
An apparatus, system, and method for address translation are provided. Physical address information corresponding to virtual addresses is prefetched and stored, where at least some sequences of the virtual addresses are in a predefined order. The physical address information is prefetched based on identification information provided by a data processing activity, comprising at least a segment identifier and a portion of a virtual address to be translated. The storage has segments of entries, wherein each segment stores physical address information which corresponds to virtual addresses in a predefined order. This predefined order means that it is not necessary to store virtual addresses in the storage. Storage capacity and response speed are therefore gained.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180004678A1 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING ADDRESS TRANSLATION Public/Granted day:2018-01-04
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