Abstract:
A device for controlling power parameters in a microprocessor includes a resource activation control unit for controlling the maximum power of the microprocessor and two or more resources. The resource activation control unit controls the activation of the resources such that the consumed and dissipated power of the microprocessor does not exceed a power bound which is configurable to a predetermined value below the maximum power.
Abstract:
A device for controlling power parameters in a microprocessor (10) includes a resource activation control unit (12) for controlling the maximum power of the microprocessor (10) and two or more resources (26 1 , 26 2 , 26 3 ). The resource activation control unit (12) controls the activation of the resources (26 1, 26 2 , 26 3 ).such that the consumed and dissipated power of the microprocessor (10) does not exceed a power bound which is configurable to a predetermined value below the maximum power.
Abstract:
A write filter cache system for protecting a microprocessor core from soft errors and method thereof are provided. In one aspect, data coming from a processor core to be written in primary cache memory, for instance, Ll cache memory system, is buffered in a write filter cache placed between the primary cache memory and the processor core. The data from the write filter is move to the main cache memory only if it is verified that main thread's data is soft error free, for instance, by comparing the main thread's data with that of its redundant thread. The main cache memory only keeps clean data associated with accepted checkpoints.