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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2016
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Michael Mishaeli, Zichron Yaakov, IL;
Ron Gabor, Hertzliya, IL;
Robert C. Valentine, Kiryat Tivon, IL;
Alex Gerber, Haifa, IL;
Zeev Sperber, Zichron Yackov, IL;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Technologies for local power gate (LPG) interfaces for power-aware operations are described. A system on chip (SoC) includes a first functional unit, a second functional unit, and local power gate (LPG) hardware coupled to the first functional unit and the second functional unit. The LPG hardware is to power gate the first functional unit according to local power states of the LPG hardware. The second functional unit decodes a first instruction to perform a first power-aware operation of a specified length, including computing an execution code path for execution. The second functional unit monitors a current local power state of the LPG hardware, selects a code path based on the current local power state, the specified length, and a specified threshold, and issues a hint to the LPG hardware to power up the first functional unit and continues execution of the first power-aware operation without waiting for the first functional unit to be powered up.