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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2023
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Peter A. Lisherness, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Lior Zimet, Kerem Maharal, IL;
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A configurable computer system is disclosed. The computer system includes a set of processing blocks and a set of programmable registers. A given one of the programmable registers corresponds to at least one of the processing blocks. The computer system is configured to receive a harvesting command that writes a disable value to a group of the programmable registers corresponding to a group of the set of processing blocks to be disabled for a selected computing platform of a plurality of different computing platforms. One or more hardware circuits are configured to perform tasks after a given boot of the computer system, the more tasks utilizing circuitry in the group of the set of processing blocks. A power control circuit is configured to, after tasks have been performed, temporarily disable the group of the set of processing blocks, thereby configuring the computer system for the selected computing platform.