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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.

Patent No.:

US 10809793 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 30, 2015

Power control method and apparatus for low power system of electronic device

Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventors:

Suhho Lee, Seongnam-si, KR;

Myungchul Cho, Suwon-si, KR;

Assignee:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;

Attorney:

Jefferson IP Law, LLP

Primary Examiner:

Eric T Oberly

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3296 (2019.01); G06F 1/26 (2006.01); G06F 13/364 (2006.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01); G06F 15/78 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3296 (2013.01); G06F 1/26 (2013.01); G06F 13/364 (2013.01); G06F 13/404 (2013.01); G06F 13/4282 (2013.01); G06F 15/7807 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system on chip (SoC) including one or more intellectual properties (IPs) and a BUS, and a power control method using the same are provided, the SoC comprising: an IP-BUS activity monitor for measuring activity based on activity information of the respective IPs, for comparing with a pre-set activity threshold and for generating a first voltage control signal for the respective IPs based on the comparison result; and a voltage regulator for supplying voltage to the respective IPs based on the generated first voltage control signal.

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