US Patent Issued to SiFive on Jan. 13 for "Cache replacement policy state structure with extra states for prefetch and non-temporal loads" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,352, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SiFive Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Cache replacement policy state structure with extra states for prefetch and non-temporal loads" was invented by Bradley Gene Burgess (Sunset Valley, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are methods, data structures, logic, and circuitry which enable a cache replacement policy to track a number of cache states greater than a number of ways in a cache. A cache replacement policy state structure provides that the number of cache states is greater than the N ways for each way per cache index in the cache The additional states can enable different handli...