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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2007
Jose Gonzalez, Sant Adria de Besos, ES;
Antonio Gonzalez, Barcelona, ES;
Jose Gonzalez, Sant Adria de Besos, ES;
Antonio Gonzalez, Barcelona, ES;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In some embodiments, an apparatus for an energy efficient clustered micro-architecture are disclosed. In one embodiment, the micro-architecture computes an energy delayproduct for each active instruction scheduler and one or more associated function blocks of a current architecture configuration over a predetermined period. Once the energy delayproduct is computed, the computed product is compared against an energy delayproduct calculated for a prior architecture configuration to determine an effectiveness (energy efficiency) of the current architecture configuration. Based on the effectiveness of the current architecture configuration, a number of active instruction schedulers and one or more associated functional blocks within the current architecture configuration is adjusted. In one embodiment, the number of active instruction schedulers and one or more associated functional blocks may be increased or decreased to improve power efficiency of the cluster micro-architecture. Other embodiments are described and claimed.