US Patent 7590792 Cache memory analyzing method

It is done to read information containing an address of a memory at which a cache miss is generated, from a cache memory. The numbers of cache misses generated at each cache miss generated address contained in the information are totalized. The cache miss generated addresses whose generated cache miss numbers are totalized are sectionalized by each of the sets. Further, the address group whose numbers of cache miss generated are consistent or close is extracted from a plurality of cache miss generated addresses divided as addresses in the same set.