- Patent Title: Power management through power gating portions of an idle processor
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Application No.: US14523351Application Date: 2014-10-24
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Publication No.: US09696790B2Publication Date: 2017-07-04
- Inventor: Noah Beck , John D. Wilkes, Jr. , Francisco Leonel Duran
- Applicant: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Volpe and Koenig, P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F1/32
- IPC: G06F1/32 ; G06F13/24 ; G06F9/44
Abstract:
Processor power may be managed by executing state storage and power gating instructions after receiving an idle indication. The idle indication may be received while the processor is executing instructions in a first mode, and the processor may execute the state storage and power gating instructions in a second mode. The state storage and power gating instructions may be inaccessible to the processor when operating in the first mode.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160116970A1 POWER MANAGEMENT Public/Granted day:2016-04-28
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