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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2006
Yosuke Muraki, Austin, TX (US);
Tetsuji Tamura, Tokyo, JP;
Iwao Takiguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Makoto Aikawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Eskinder Hailu, Austin, TX (US);
Byron Lee Krauter, Round Rock, TX (US);
Stephen Douglas Weitzel, Round Rock, TX (US);
Jieming Qi, Austin, TX (US);
Kazuhiko Miki, Round Rock, TX (US);
David William Boerstler, Round Rock, TX (US);
Gilles Gervais, Austin, TX (US);
Kirk David Peterson, Jericho, VT (US);
Robert Walter Berry, Jr., Round Rock, TX (US);
Sang Hoo Dhong, Austin, TX (US);
Yosuke Muraki, Austin, TX (US);
Tetsuji Tamura, Tokyo, JP;
Iwao Takiguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Makoto Aikawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Eskinder Hailu, Austin, TX (US);
Byron Lee Krauter, Round Rock, TX (US);
Stephen Douglas Weitzel, Round Rock, TX (US);
Jieming Qi, Austin, TX (US);
Kazuhiko Miki, Round Rock, TX (US);
David William Boerstler, Round Rock, TX (US);
Gilles Gervais, Austin, TX (US);
Kirk David Peterson, Jericho, VT (US);
Robert Walter Berry, Jr., Round Rock, TX (US);
Sang Hoo Dhong, Austin, TX (US);
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A technology for supplying a power supply voltage to a microprocessor. Before normal arithmetic processing of the microprocessor, duty cycle correction process for adjusting the duty cycle of a clock signal inside the microprocessor is performed. In the duty cycle correction process for adjusting the duty cycle, the duty cycle of the clock signal is adjusted so as to minimize the power voltage at which the microprocessor is still operable.