Application driven power gating
US8589854B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 13, 2010 |
| Grant date | Nov 19, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 2, 2032 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2119/06
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed to manage power in a custom integrated circuit (IC) design by receiving a specification of the custom integrated circuit including computer readable code and generating a profile of the computer readable code to determine instruction usage; automatically generating a processor architecture uniquely customized to the computer readable code, the processor architecture having one or more processing blocks and one or more power domains; determining when each processing block is needed based on the code profile and assigning each block to one of the power domains; and gating the power domains with power based on the code profile; and synthesizing the generated architecture into a computer readable description of the custom integrated circuit for semiconductor fabrication.
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