Patents by Inventor Illan Y. Spillinger

Illan Y. Spillinger has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Global stride prefetching apparatus and method for a high-performance processor
    Patent number: 6055622
    Abstract: A method and hardware apparatus for data prefetching. In one embodiment, the method of the present invention comprises first calculating a local stride value by computing the value between two address references of a first load instruction. The local stride value of the first load instruction is used as a global stride value for address prefetching for a second load instruction, where the second load instruction is different from the first load instruction. An appropriate global stride value is added to a previous address value associated with a previous occurrence of the second load instruction, producing an address location for prefetching a block of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Illan Y. Spillinger