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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 03, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Rakesh Bhatia, San Jose, CA (US);
Dennis Reinhardt, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Barnes Cooper, Beaverton, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 2/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 2/300 ;
Abstract
A system including a component (e.g., a processor) with a clock and a thermal management controller that monitors a temperature in the system. The thermal management controller varies the component between different performance states (e.g., cycles the processor between a high and a low performance state) when an over-temperature condition is detected. The thermal management controller further throttles the clock of the component while in the low performance state until the over-temperature condition is removed.