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Jin Chin Wang0
Kimming So0
Date of Patent
December 1, 2009
0Patent Application Number
111017680
Date Filed
April 8, 2005
0Patent Primary Examiner
Patent abstract
Systems and methods that provide directional prefetching are provided. In one embodiment, a method may include one or more of the following: storing a first block and a second block in a prefetch buffer; associating a first block access with a backward prefetch scheme; associating a second block access with a forward prefetch scheme; and, if the first block is accessed before the second block, then performing a backward prefetch with respect to the first block.
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