System and method for managing power consumption and data...

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2003-08-20

2009-06-09

Sough, Hyung S (Department: 2188)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Hierarchical memories

Reexamination Certificate

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07546418

ABSTRACT:
A system and method for managing power consumption and data integrity in a computer system is disclosed in which the a memory controller of the computer system records in a buffer the addresses of writes to system memory that occur during the period that the processor is in a low power state. When the processor exits the low power state, the processor invalidates in its internal cache those cache lines that correspond to the addresses recorded in the buffer.

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