US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on Dec. 9 for "Write control for read-modify-write operations in cache memory" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,522, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Write control for read-modify-write operations in cache memory" was invented by Abhijeet Ashok Chachad (Plano, Texas), Timothy David Anderson (University Park, Texas), David Matthew Thompson (Dallas) and Daniel Brad Wu (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In described examples, a processor system includes a processor core that generates memory write requests, and a cache memory with a memory controller having a memory pipeline. The cache memory has cache lines of length L. The cache memory has a minimum write length that is less than a cache line length o...