Patents by Inventor Ing-Chao Lin

Ing-Chao Lin 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: 9875191
    Abstract: An electronic device having a scratchpad memory and a management method are provided. A recording circuit records multiple counter values which correspond to entries in a Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB). A virtual address is matched with a first entry. If a cache miss occurs, the recording circuit updates a first counter value corresponding to the first entry, and determines if the first counter value meets a threshold criterion. If the first counter value meets the threshold criterion, the recording circuit transmits an interrupts signal to a processing unit, and the processing unit moves data into the scratchpad memory. If the first counter value does not meet the threshold criterion, the data is moved into a cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ta-Wei Chang, Ing-Chao Lin, Wen-Yu Su, Yu-Shiang Chien
  • Publication number: 20160342526
    Abstract: An electronic device having a scratchpad memory and a management method are provided. A recording circuit records multiple counter values which are corresponding to entries in a Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB). A virtual address is matched with a first entry. If a cache miss occurs, the recording circuit updates a first counter value corresponding to the first entry, and determines if the first counter value meets a threshold criterion. If the first counter value meets the threshold criterion, the recording circuit transmits an interrupts signal to a processing unit, and the processing unit moves data into the scratchpad memory. If the first counter value does not meet the threshold criterion, the data is moved into a cache.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Ta-Wei Chang, Ing-Chao Lin, Wen-Yu Su