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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Sorin Iacobovici, San Jose, CA (US);
Ronald Melanson, Woodside, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/26 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/26 ;
Abstract
A power dissipation control mechanism for a central processing unit includes a power estimation circuit for estimating the power dissipation of instructions executed by the central processing during a selected time interval and a speed controller for adjusting the speed of the central processing unit in response to the estimated power dissipation produced by the power estimation circuit.