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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 27, 2017
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Richard Stewart, San Diego, CA (US);

Dexter Chun, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/32 (2019.01); G06F 1/3234 (2019.01); G06F 1/3237 (2019.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01); G06F 1/3296 (2019.01); G06F 1/3225 (2019.01); G06F 1/324 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3275 (2013.01); G06F 1/324 (2013.01); G06F 1/3225 (2013.01); G06F 1/3237 (2013.01); G06F 1/3296 (2013.01); G06F 13/1689 (2013.01); G06F 13/4068 (2013.01); G06F 2213/0064 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for reducing dynamic random access memory (DRAM) power consumption within a selected voltage frequency/bin. One embodiment is a method comprising receiving a selected voltage/frequency bin for operating a memory bus electrically coupling a memory controller to a dynamic random access memory (DRAM). The method monitors a bandwidth of the memory bus while operating at the selected voltage/frequency bin. The method frequency switches a clock for the memory bus, based on the monitored bandwidth, between a plurality of predefined frequencies within the selected voltage/frequency bin to maintain a target bandwidth.


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