Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory – Address formation – Generating prefetch – look-ahead – jump – or predictive address
Patent
1996-08-15
2000-10-17
Cabeca, John W.
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory
Address formation
Generating prefetch, look-ahead, jump, or predictive address
711137, 711204, 710 22, 710129, G06F 1314
Patent
active
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ABSTRACT:
A digital system has a main memory 10 with a main memory access (DMA) unit 11 through which data channels 12, 13 are coupled to the memory. A processor system (processor 14, RAM data memory 15, instruction memory 16) is also coupled to the memory through a read/write buffer 20, each read stalling the processor for typically 5 cycles. For block reads, a block memory read unit 25 is connected in parallel with the path between the read/write buffer 20 and the DMA unit 11. This block read unit can be set from the processor 14 with a block start address and a block length passed as writes through the read/write buffer 20. The block is read (first phase) word by word from the main memory via the DMA unit into a memory 28 in the block read unit. The processor then sends a command to the block read unit as a read through the read/write buffer, which then writes the block word by word directly into the memory 15 (second phase), using the processor's local data and address buses 17 and 18 and disabling the processor's address buffer 32.
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Cottam Ian Nicholas
Elliott Mark
Harper John
Holmes Anthony John
Stratford Martin
Cabeca John W.
Digital Esquipment Corporation
Tran Denise
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