Translation look aside buffer with parallel exception checking and update bypass
CA 2029628 A1 · Owner: Ross Technology, Inc. · Inventors: Tinker, Darrell; Dobbs, Carl S.; Carmean, Douglas M.
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An apparatus and method for translating virtual addresses to physical addresses of a main memory is disclosed. The main memory includes a plurality of pages each, page of memory corresponds to a page address. The virtual addresses are stored in a content addressable memory. The content addressable memory includes a plurality of entries and each entry contains one of the virtual addresses. The random access memory includes a plurality of entries and each entry of the random access memory contains one of the page addresses and associated with each page address is access privilege information. The access privilege information denotes the level of authorization required for accessing the page …
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- Filed November 9, 1990. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended November 9, 2010.
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