Hardware coordination of power management activities

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support – Clock – pulse – or timing signal generation or analysis – Correction for skew – phase – or rate

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C713S001000, C713S002000, C713S400000, C713S401000, C713S500000, C713S501000, C713S502000

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10859892

ABSTRACT:
Systems and methods of managing power provide for receiving notification of a pending power state transition and using coordination hardware to determine whether the power state transition in a primary device is permitted by a set of secondary devices. In one embodiment, the primary device shares a resource with the set of secondary devices.

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