US Patent Issued to Avago Technologies International Sales on Sept. 2 for "Prefetch memory management unit for real-time virtual memory address translation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,900, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Prefetch memory management unit for real-time virtual memory address translation" was invented by Darren Neuman (Palo Alto, Calif.), Flaviu Dorin Turean (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Friederich Mombers (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An MMU with prefetch functionality is provided. The MMU includes a first TLB, burst buffer, second TLB and control logic. The first TLB is configured to fetch a first set of one or more first page table entries based, at least in part, on a virtual address, and before a request to access a cl...