Patent №
US 9,507,715
Granted
2016-11-29
Filed 2014
Owner
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
Lab
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AI components
1
hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
14523045
A processor includes a set of processing modules, each of the processing modules including a cache and a coherency manager that keeps track of the memory addresses of data stored at the caches of other processing modules. In response to its local cache requesting access to a particular memory address or other triggering event, the coherency manager generates a coherency probe. In the event that the generated coherency probe is targeted to multiple processing modules, the coherency manager includes a set of multicast bits indicating the processing modules whose caches include copies of the data targeted by the multicast probe. A transport switch that connects the processing module to the fabric communicates the coherency probe only to subset of processing modules indicated by the multicast bits.
AI classification
Ownership
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
assignment · 340290988
Assignors
MORTON, ERIC, CONWAY, PATRICK, COOPER, ELIZABETH MORROW, KALYANASUNDHARAM, VYDHYANATHAN
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