US Patent Issued to SiFive on Aug. 26 for "Translation lookaside buffer (TLB) prefetcher with multi-level TLB prefetches and feedback architecture" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,837, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SiFive Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Translation lookaside buffer (TLB) prefetcher with multi-level TLB prefetches and feedback architecture" was invented by Benoy Alexander (Cedar Park, Texas), John Ingalls (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Mohit Gopal Wani (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) prefetcher with multi-level TLB prefetches and feedback architecture. A processing system includes two or more translation lookaside buffer (TLB) levels, each TLB level including a miss queue, and a TLB prefetcher connected to each of the two or more TL...