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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2007
Kerry Bernstein, Underhill, VT (US);
Kenneth Joseph Goodnow, Essex, VT (US);
Clarence Rosser Ogilvie, Huntington, VT (US);
Keith Robert Williams, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Sebastian Theodore Ventrone, South Burlington, VT (US);
Kerry Bernstein, Underhill, VT (US);
Kenneth Joseph Goodnow, Essex, VT (US);
Clarence Rosser Ogilvie, Huntington, VT (US);
Keith Robert Williams, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Sebastian Theodore Ventrone, South Burlington, VT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of reducing static power consumption in a low power electronic device. The electronic device including one or more power islands, each power island including: a local storage capacitor coupling a local power grid to a local ground grid; and a functional circuit connected between the local power grid and the local ground grid; a global storage capacitor coupling a global power grid to a global ground grid, each local ground grid connected to the global ground grid; one or more switches, each switch selectively connecting the global power grid to a single and different corresponding local power grid; and a power dispatch unit adapted to open and close the one or more switches.