ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,253, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Selectable slice mapping" was invented by Pongstorn Maidee (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for selectable slice mapping in shared cache levels are described. In one example, a processor includes a cache system having a shared cache level of a hierarchy of cache levels and slice hashing circuitry associated with the shared cache level. The shared cache level includes multiple slices accessible by threads running on multiple processor cores. The slice hashing circuitry assigns memory addresses used by a ...