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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2006
Hungse Cha, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Robert J. Hasslen, Iii, Menlo Park, CA (US);
John A. Robinson, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sean J. Treichler, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abdulkadir Utku Diril, San Jose, CA (US);
Hungse Cha, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Robert J. Hasslen, III, Menlo Park, CA (US);
John A. Robinson, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sean J. Treichler, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abdulkadir Utku Diril, San Jose, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A power monitor for electronic devices, such as computer chips, is used to estimate the power consumption and to compare the estimated power consumption against the power budget. The estimated power consumption is based on activity signals from various functional blocks of the computer chip. The activity signals that are monitored correlate accurately to the total number of flip-flops that are active at a given time. If the estimated power consumption exceeds the power budget, the speed of the clock signals supplied to the computer chip is reduced.