The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2010
Frank A. Adessa, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Frank A. Adessa, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
NVDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for metering a processing workload. A freeze time and run time are used to control whether or not pointers to command buffers are popped from a FIFO and the commands that generate a workload are read for processing. Smaller bursts of commands broken up by periods of idleness are coalesced by the workload metering to create larger bursts of commands during the run time and longer periods of idleness during the freeze time. Power saving features may be enabled during the periods of idleness to reduce the power consumption of the device performing the processing.