Pipelined ECC-protected memory access
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Aug 22, 2017
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Feb 2, 2015
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In one aspect, a pipelined ECC-protected cache access method and apparatus provides that during a normal operating mode, for a given cache transaction, a tag comparison action and a data RAM read are performed speculatively in a time during which an ECC calculation occurs. If a correctable error occurs, the tag comparison action and data RAM are repeated and an error mode is entered. Subsequent transactions are processed by performing the ECC calculation, without concurrent speculative actions, and a tag comparison and read are performed using only the tag data available after the ECC calculation. A reset to normal mode is effected by detecting a gap between transactions that is sufficient to avoid a conflict for use of tag comparison circuitry for an earlier transaction having a repeated tag comparison and a later transaction having a speculative tag comparison.
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