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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2006
Lance Hacking, Austin, TX (US);
Belliappa Kuttanna, Austin, TX (US);
Rajesh Patel, Austin, TX (US);
Ashish Choubal, Austin, TX (US);
Terry Fletcher, Rancho Cordova, CA (US);
Steven S. Varnum, Tigard, OR (US);
Binta Patel, Austin, TX (US);
Lance Hacking, Austin, TX (US);
Belliappa Kuttanna, Austin, TX (US);
Rajesh Patel, Austin, TX (US);
Ashish Choubal, Austin, TX (US);
Terry Fletcher, Rancho Cordova, CA (US);
Steven S. Varnum, Tigard, OR (US);
Binta Patel, Austin, TX (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method to reduce idle leakage power in I/O pins of an integrated circuit using external circuitry. Initially, I/O pins on a package are subdivided into those that will also remain powered up and those that will power down during idle state. When a system enters a low power mode, a signal is sent to the external circuitry. The signal notifies the I/O pins that always remain powered up to notify the external circuitry to power down the other set of I/O pins.