Image forming apparatus locks down storage area of cache memory stores portion of image forming program for executing real-time image forming process
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorsYuji Toshinaga, Shigeki Nozawa
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Abstract
An image forming device that executes an image forming program for real-time mechanical control and another program, using a single cache memory for the image forming program and said another program. The image forming device includes: a cache lockdown unit that executes a cache lockdown to lock down a storage area of the cache memory that stores at least a portion of the image forming program necessary for image formation processing; and a print unit that executes the image formation processing while the storage area is locked down.
Claims20
An image forming device that executes an image forming program for real-time mechanical control and an other program different from the image forming program, using a same cache memory for the image forming program and said other program, the image forming device comprising:
- a cache lockdown unit that executes a cache lockdown to lock down a storage area of the cache memory that stores a portion of the image forming program necessary for image formation processing that forms an image by causing operation of a mechanical part via the mechanical control;
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- a print unit that executes the image formation processing while the storage area is locked down and an other area of the cache memory that stores a portion of the other program necessary for the other program's processing Is not in cache lockdown.
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