ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,187, issued on May 27, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).
"Software-hardware memory management modes" was invented by Timothy D. Anderson (University Park, Texas), Joseph Raymond Michael Zbiciak (San Jose, Calif.), Kai Chirca (Dallas) and Daniel Brad Wu (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a memory management unit (MMU) comprising a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) and a configuration register, a request from a processor core to directly modify an entry in the TLB. The method also includes, responsive to the configuration register having a first value, operating the MMU in a sof...