公开(公告)号：MY107793A

公开(公告)日：1996-06-15

申请号：MYPI19912418

申请日：1991-12-30

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： RICHARD FRANCIS POLLITT ,  SHAUN ASTARABADI ,  FRANCIS JAMES CANOVA JR ,  NEIL ALAN KATZ ,  C WILLIAM FRANK ,  LEOPOLDO LINO SUAREZ

IPC: G06F1/26 ,  G06F1/04 ,  G06F11/30 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G06F1/28 ,  G06F1/32

Abstract: A COMPUTER (10) HAS TWO PROCESSORS. A MAIN PROCESSOR (12) OPERATES UNDER THE CONTROL OF AN OPERATING SYSTEM AND PROVIDES OVERALL CONTROL OF THE COMPUTER FOR EXECUTING APPLICATION PROGRAMS. THE MAIN PROCESSOR ALSO ASSISTS IN POWER MANAGEMENT BY EXECUTING CERTAIN INTERRUPTS AND CONTROLLING A POWER CONTROL REGISTER (108) TO TURN POWER ON AND OFF TO VARIOUS DEVICES. A POWER MANAGEMENT PROCESSOR (30) MONITORS AMBIENT TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY, AND BATTERY CONDITIONS, AND GENERATES INTERRUPTS AS A RESULT OF PREDETERMINED CHANGES. SUCH PROCESSOR ALSO CONTROLS CHARGING OF THE BATTERY (11). LOGIC MEANS ARE RESPONSIVE TO PREDETERMINED CONDITIONS TO ALSO GENERATE INTERRUPTS. (FIG. 1)