US Patent Issued to Arm on Nov. 25 for "Method and apparatus for reduction of recurring cache misses" (British, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,593, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Method and apparatus for reduction of recurring cache misses" was invented by Lorenzo Di Gregorio (Munich) and Andrew David Tune (Dronfield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control circuit is configured to receive a stream of addresses associated with cache lookup requests resulting from execution of a workload by a data processing system. The control circuit includes a cache miss monitor and a cache hit monitor both coupled to a controller. The cache miss monitor determines a number of reoccurring misses as a difference between the number of...