US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on June 3 for "Hardware coherence for memory controller" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,270, issued on June 3, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Hardware coherence for memory controller" was invented by Abhijeet Ashok Chachad (Plano, Texas), David Matthew Thompson (Dallas) and Naveen Bhoria (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a non-coherent component; a coherent, non-caching component; a coherent, caching component; and a level two (L2) cache subsystem coupled to the non-coherent component, the coherent, non-caching component, and the coherent, caching component. The L2 cache subsystem includes a L2 cache; a shadow level one (L1) main cache; a shadow L1 victim cache; and a L2 co...