Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Choonghoon Park

Jonglae Park

Youngtae Lee

Bumgyu Park

Jong-Lae Park

Donghee Han

Hyunchul Seok

Hanjun Shin

Byungsoo Kwon

Kwanjin Jung

Junhwa Seo

Youngcheol Shin

Dahye Choi

Daeyeong Lee

Hyunji Hong

An electronic device includes a clock management unit configured to generate a clock signal, an intellectual property (IP) device configured to receive the clock signal and is configured to perform a task according to the clock signal in an active state, a first counter configured to count cycles of the clock signal while the IP device is in the active state, and is configured to generate a first count, and a frequency controller configured to control the clock management unit to change a frequency of the clock signal when the first count reaches a first reference count.

Electronic device controlling frequency of clock signal and method of operating the electronic device

An operating method of a system-on-chip (SoC) which includes a processor including a first core and a dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) module and a clock management unit (CMU) for supplying an operating clock to the first core, the operating method including: obtaining a required performance of the first core; finding available frequencies meeting the required performance; obtaining information for calculating energy consumption for each of the available frequencies; calculating the energy consumption for each of the available frequencies, based on the information; determining a frequency, which causes minimum energy consumption, from among the available frequencies as an optimal frequency; and

System-on-chip and an operating method thereof

Disclosed is an apparatus for dynamic thermal management, which includes a thermal management unit that determines whether there is a need to perform thermal management on a processor based on temperatures measured from a plurality of temperature sensors included in the processor and generates an indication signal, and a controller that performs the thermal management on the processor in response to the indication signal, by using a first method of adjusting a state of each of a plurality of cores included in the processor, a second method of adjusting a level of an operating voltage and a frequency of a clock signal, which are provided to the processor, and/or a third method for adjusting only the frequency of the clock signal to be provided to the processor, and where each of the plurality of cores is in a wake-up state or an idle state.

Apparatus and method for dynamic thermal management using frequency clamping and idle injection

An apparatus and a method for scheduling a task in an electronic device including a heterogeneous multi-processor are provided. The electronic device includes a memory and a processor operatively connected to the memory and including a plurality of heterogeneous cores. The processor may be configured to identify, when a task to be scheduled occurs, a scheduling group having the task among a plurality of predefined scheduling groups, and to perform scheduling for the task, based on the identified scheduling group having the task and a priority of the task.

Electronic device for scheduling based on heterogeneous multi-processor and operating method thereof

Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) is performed based on a power step by setting a plurality of power levels corresponding to a plurality of available frequencies of a clock signal for an operation of a processor, setting a plurality of power steps corresponding to the plurality of available frequencies, and controlling a conversion between the plurality of power levels based on a utilization of the processor and the plurality of power steps. Performance and power consumption of a processor are controlled efficiently by performing power level conversion based on the power step.

Method of performing dynamic voltage and frequency scaling based on power step

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Choonghoon Park