Inventors:
Brian K. Langendorf - El Dorado Hills CA
Brian Tucker - El Dorado Hills CA
Assignee:
Intel Corporation - Santa Clara CA
International Classification:
G06F 1730
Abstract:
A method and apparatus to accelerate variable length decode is disclosed, including a method and an apparatus to initialize data structures. The initialization apparatus includes a start address storage region to receive a start address from a processor and a memory access engine coupled to the start address storage region. The memory access engine writes a predetermined pattern to a data structure located in a memory device. The data structure is defined by the start address stored in the start address storage region and is further defined by a predetermined data structure size.