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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2011
Hassane S. Azar, San Francisco, CA (US);
Franck R. Diard, Mountain View, CA (US);
Amit Parikh, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Xun Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Hassane S. Azar, San Francisco, CA (US);
Franck R. Diard, Mountain View, CA (US);
Amit Parikh, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Xun Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system is presented that is configured to reduce power consumption when performing processing tasks. The system includes a first processing entity capable of performing a set of operations, and a second processing entity configured to consume less power than the first processing entity and capable of performing a subset of operations that is part of the set of operations. During system operation, the second processing entity is configured to perform the subset of operations instead of the first processing entity.