Digital throttle for multiple operating points

Details Digital throttle for multiple operating points Digital throttle for multiple operating points

2007-10-09

2007-10-09

Perveen, Rehana (Department: 2116)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support

Computer power control

C713S323000

Reexamination Certificate

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10041092

ABSTRACT:
A processor includes a digital throttle to monitor the activity of various units of the processor's instruction execution pipeline. The monitored activity is scaled according to the current operating point of the processor and a power state is determined from the scaled activity. If the power state reaches a first threshold, the operating point of the processor is adjusted and a new scaling factor is selected to determine the power state.

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