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Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018

Filed:

Oct. 14, 2014
Applicant:

Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventor:

Volker Mauer, Princes Risborough, GB;

Assignee:

Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04L 12/861 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/0206 (2013.01); H04L 49/90 (2013.01);
Abstract

Integrated circuits with wireless communications circuitry are provided. The wireless communications circuitry may include an input FIFO, an output FIFO, a processing module interposed between the input and output FIFOs, and dynamic power control circuitry that controls the performance of the processing module. The input and output FIFOs may provide fill level information to the processing module. The dynamic power control circuitry may analyze the current fill level information received from the input and output FIFOs and may increase the operating frequency and/or boost the power supply voltage of the processing module in response to detecting that the input FIFO is filling up faster than the output FIFO or may decrease the operating frequency and/or reduce the power supply voltage of the processing module in response to detecting that the output FIFO is filling up faster than the input FIFO.


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