US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Sept. 30 for "Systems and methods for branch misprediction aware cache prefetcher training" (Texas, Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,136, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for branch misprediction aware cache prefetcher training" was invented by Jagadish B. Kotra (Austin, Texas), Gabriel H. Loh (Bellevue, Wash.) and John Kalamatianos (Boxborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed device uses a control circuit configured to (i) receive branch misprediction information corresponding to a mispredicted branch window of instructions and (ii) send a misprediction status of a memory access from the mispredicted branch window of instructions, and a cache prefetcher of a cache confi...