Global and pseudo power state management for multiple processing elements
US7426648B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 30, 2004 |
| Grant date | Sep 16, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 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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