US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on Dec. 16 for "Servicing CPU demand requests with inflight prefetches" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,049, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Servicing CPU demand requests with inflight prefetches" was invented by Oluleye Olorode (Garland, Texas) and Ramakrishnan Venkatasubramanian (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments provide a technique in which a memory controller determines whether a fetch address is a miss in an L1 cache and, when a miss occurs, allocates a way of the L1 cache, determines whether the allocated way matches a scoreboard entry of pending service requests, and, when such a match is found, determine whether a request address of the matching scoreboard ent...