US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on June 24 for "Managing a cache using per memory region reuse distance estimation" (Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,783, issued on June 24, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Managing a cache using per memory region reuse distance estimation" was invented by John Kalamatianos (Arlington, Mass.), Jagadish B. Kotra (Austin, Texas) and Asmita Pal (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory request issue counter (MRIC) is maintained that is incremented for every memory access a central processing unit core makes. A region reuse distance table is also maintained that includes multiple entries each of which stores the region reuse distance for a corresponding region. When a memory access request for a physical...