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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2005
Applicant:
David H. Lin, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
David H. Lin, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
LSI Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); H03G 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides a method and system for reducing power consumption of a sound processor. Aspects of the invention include providing a sound processor access to at least one register having a plurality of bits corresponding to sound operations capable of being performed by the sound processor; and allowing a host processor to write a value to at least a portion of the plurality of bits in the register during sound processing to selectively disable individual operations performed by the sound processor.