Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Rune Hartung Jensen

Jouya Jadidian

Scott Fullam

Brian K Langendorf

Amit P Marathe

Susan Elizabeth Carrie

Jeffrey Andrews

Kingsuk Maitra

Ankur Varma

Tung Thanh Nguyen

Ranjit Gannamani

Julia Purtell

Examples are disclosed that relate to sensing a position of a surface proximate to a resonant LC sensor. One example provides a method on a sensing device comprising one or more resonant LC sensors each configured to output a signal responsive to a position of a surface proximate to the resonant LC sensor. The method comprises, for each LC sensor, generating an oscillating signal on an antenna of the resonant LC sensor and detecting a near-field response of the resonant LC sensor at a selected frequency.

Surface sensing via resonant sensor

Embodiments are disclosed that relate to implementing semiconductor device cooling systems that leverage awareness of regional voltage and temperature reliability risk considerations. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a method of implementing a cooling system configured to cool an integrated circuit. The method involves first determining a heat dissipation factor that would reduce each region of the integrated circuit to a reduced temperature in order to maintain an overall failure rate. An analysis is then performed, using an insight about the relative reliability risk of elevated voltage and temperatures, to identify a region of the integrated circuit whose temperature can be permitted to rise without exceeding the overall failure rate, thereby permitting implementation of a cooling system with a reduced heat dissipation factor.

Reliability aware thermal design

Power is dynamically conserved in a device by analyzing past processing performance of the device and predicting the amount of power required for future execution. In an example embodiment, a video frame is analyzed to determine what portion of the video frame was needed to render data. If less than the full video frame was needed, at least one power conservation technique is applied to the device for subsequent rendering of data. Power conservation techniques include adjusting the operating frequency of circuitry utilized to render data, adjusting the voltage applied to circuitry utilized to render data, and/or turning off/on circuitry utilized to render data.

Media device power conservation

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