US Patent Issued to Ventana Micro Systems on Dec. 9 for "Using physical address proxies to accomplish penalty-less processing of load/store instructions whose data straddles cache line address boundaries" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,558, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Ventana Micro Systems Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Using physical address proxies to accomplish penalty-less processing of load/store instructions whose data straddles cache line address boundaries" was invented by John G. Favor (San Francisco) and Srivatsan Srinivasan (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microprocessor includes a physically-indexed physically-tagged second-level set-associative cache. A set index and a way uniquely identifies each entry. A load/store unit, during store/load instruction execution: detects that a first and second portions of store/load data are to be ...