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Systems and methods for addressing a cache with split-indexes

  • US 9,916,252 B2
  • Filed: 05/19/2015
  • Issued: 03/13/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for storing elements from a main memory into a cache, the method comprising:

  • associating respective ones of a plurality of cache lines of a cache memory with different ones of a plurality of indexes;

    defining a first set of bits of a first address associated with a first memory location of the main memory as a first index portion and defining a second set of bits of the first address as a second index portion;

    generating, with the cache, a first combined index by concatenating the first index portion and the second index portion; and

    storing data from at least the first memory location to a first cache line of the plurality of cache lines based on the first combined index.

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