Patents by Inventor Johnny K. Szeto

Johnny K. Szeto 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).

  • Patent number: 6360298
    Abstract: A load/store instruction control method of a microprocessor according to the present invention has a feature as follows. The circuit implements non-blocking cache which does not allow a pipeline process of a microprocessor to stop even if a cache miss by load/store instructions occurs. When the load instruction for a no-write allocate area directly storing a store-data to a lower layer memory in a cache hierarchy at time of a cache-miss initiates the cache-miss, and a subsequent store instruction initiates the cache-miss for the same cache line as that of the preceding load instruction, during a refill process of the DCACHE by the preceding load instruction or after the refill process, the store-data by the subsequent store instruction is stored to a corresponding cache line. Consequently, unconformity of data such as only the lower layer memory in the cache hierarchy holds a new data and only the DCACHE holds an old data does not occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takeki Osanai, Johnny K. Szeto, Kyle Tsukamoto