Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus and methods for an interconnect power manager
- Patent Title (中): 互连电源管理器的装置和方法
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Application No.: US13434605Application Date: 2012-03-29
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Publication No.: US08868941B2Publication Date: 2014-10-21
- Inventor: Doddaballapur N. Jayasimha , Drew E. Wingard , Stephen W. Hamilton
- Applicant: Doddaballapur N. Jayasimha , Drew E. Wingard , Stephen W. Hamilton
- Applicant Address: US CA Milpitas
- Assignee: Sonics, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Sonics, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Milpitas
- Agency: Rutan & Tucker, LLP
- Main IPC: G06F1/00
- IPC: G06F1/00 ; G06F1/32 ; G06G7/54 ; G06F13/00 ; G06F15/00

Abstract:
An interconnect-power-manager (IPM) cooperates and communicates signals with an integrated-circuit-system-power-manager (SPM) in the integrated-circuit. The interconnect network (IN) is partitioned into multiple power domains and has hardware circuitry integrated into the IN to manage a quiescent state for all components in each power domain in the IN when a routing pathway for transactions in the IN spans across one or more power domain boundaries and causes interdependencies of power domains within the IN other than where the power domains of the initiator agent and final target agent of the transaction are located within. The SPM is configured to cooperate and communicate with the IPM to quiesce, to wake up, and any combination of the two, one or more of the multiple power domains within the IN.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130073878A1 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR AN INTERCONNECT POWER MANAGER Public/Granted day:2013-03-21
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