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Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2014

Filed:

Nov. 11, 2010
Applicants:

Bohuslav Rychlik, San Diego, CA (US);

Ali Iranli, San Diego, CA (US);

Brian J. Salsbery, Boulder, CO (US);

Sumit Sur, Boulder, CO (US);

Steven S. Thomson, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Bohuslav Rychlik, San Diego, CA (US);

Ali Iranli, San Diego, CA (US);

Brian J. Salsbery, Boulder, CO (US);

Sumit Sur, Boulder, CO (US);

Steven S. Thomson, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method of dynamically controlling power within a multicore central processing unit is disclosed and includes executing a plurality of virtual cores, virtually executing one or more tasks, one or more threads, or a combination thereof at the virtual cores, and physically executing one or more tasks, one or more threads, or a combination thereof at a zeroth physical core. The method may further include receiving a degree of parallelism in a workload of a plurality of virtual cores and determining whether the degree of parallelism in the workload of the virtual cores is equal to a first wake condition.


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