US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on May 6 for "System and method for SRAM less electronic device bootup using cache" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,978, issued on May 6, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"System and method for SRAM less electronic device bootup using cache" was invented by Ramacharan Sundararaman (San Jose, Calif.) and Avinash Sodani (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new approach is proposed to support SRAM less bootup of an electronic device. A portion of a cache unit of a processor is utilized as a SRAM to maintain data to be accessed via read and/or write operations for bootup of the electronic device. First, the portion of the cache unit is mapped to a region of a memory, which has not been initialized. The processor reads da...