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Global and pseudo power state management for multiple processing elements

US7426648B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateSep 30, 2004
Grant dateSep 16, 2008
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Expiry dateAug 30, 2025

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F9/3851
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and apparatus for global and local power management is herein described. Hardware within monitor/receives power management requests for any number of processing elements and adjusts global performance resources to change the global power state of all the processing elements or adjusts a local performance resource for a processing element to operate that processing element at a pseudo power state within the global power state.

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