Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support – Computer power control – Power conservation
Reexamination Certificate
2007-05-29
2007-05-29
Perveen, Rehana (Department: 2116)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support
Computer power control
Power conservation
C713S300000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11300716
ABSTRACT:
In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a triggering event is initiated to place a processor in a low power state. The processor may or may not flush a cache upon entering the low power state depending on a power status signal. The power status signal may indicated the relative priority of power reduction associated with placing the processor in the low power state without first flushing the cache versus an increase in soft error rate in the cache associated with reducing the voltage in the low power state.
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Cline Leslie E.
Dai Xia
Horigan John W.
Mittal Millind
Intel Corporation
McCall Molly A.
Perveen Rehana
Stoynov Stefan
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