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72 Chapter 5.<br />

Tag Read Sequence<br />

Cycle<br />

SCClk<br />

SC[A,B]Addr(18:0)<br />

SCTagLSBAddr<br />

SC[A,B]DWay<br />

SCData(127:0)<br />

SCDataChk(9:0)<br />

SC[A,B]DOE*<br />

SC[A,B]DWr*<br />

SC[A,B]DCS*<br />

SCTWay<br />

SCTag(25:0)<br />

SCTagChk(6:0)<br />

SCTOE*<br />

SCTWr*<br />

SCTCS*<br />

A tag read sequence is performed when the state of a secondary cache block is<br />

required, but it is not necessary to access the data array. This sequence is used for<br />

the CACHE Index Load Tag (S) instruction.<br />

Figure 5-6 depicts a secondary cache tag read sequence.<br />

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17<br />

Adr0<br />

X<br />

TagX<br />

Figure 5-6 Tag Read Sequence<br />

Version 2.0 of January 29, 1997 <strong>MIPS</strong> <strong>R10000</strong> <strong>Microprocessor</strong> <strong>User's</strong> <strong>Manual</strong>

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