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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2021
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Brijesh Tripathi, Los Altos, CA (US);
Shane J. Keil, San Jose, CA (US);
Manu Gulati, Saratoga, CA (US);
Jung Wook Cho, Cupertino, CA (US);
Erik P. Machnicki, San Jose, CA (US);
Gilbert H. Herbeck, Livermore, CA (US);
Timothy J. Millet, Mountain View, CA (US);
Joshua P. De Cesare, Campbell, CA (US);
Anand Dalal, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, a system on a chip (SOC) includes a component that remains powered when the remainder of the SOC is powered off. The component may include a sensor capture unit to capture data from various device sensors, and may filter the captured sensor data. Responsive to the filtering, the component may wake up the remainder of the SOC to permit the processing. The component may store programmable configuration data, matching the state at the time the SOC was most recently powered down, for the other components of the SOC, in order to reprogram them after wakeup. In some embodiments, the component may be configured to wake up the memory controller within the SOC and the path to the memory controller, in order to write the data to memory. The remainder of the SOC may remain powered down.