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Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2015

Filed:

Aug. 06, 2012
Applicants:

Kuo-han Chang, New Taipei, TW;

Chun-wei Chan, New Taipei, TW;

Ming-cheng Liu, New Taipei, TW;

Zong-pu Qi, Beijing, CN;

Inventors:

Kuo-Han Chang, New Taipei, TW;

Chun-Wei Chan, New Taipei, TW;

Ming-Cheng Liu, New Taipei, TW;

Zong-Pu Qi, Beijing, CN;

Assignee:

VIA Technologies, Inc., New Taipei, TW;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3215 (2013.01); G06F 1/3287 (2013.01);
Abstract

A multi-core processor system, a dynamic power management method thereof and a control apparatus thereof are provided. In the method, a workload of a multi-core processor during a runtime stage is obtained. Next, a hot-plug operation is respectively performed on a plurality of slave cores according to the workload and a working state of each slave core. Then, a bus master status and the working state of a boot core are monitored to determine whether to power off the boot core, in which the bus master status is generated by combining a plurality of device statuses reflected by a plurality of peripheral devices. Finally, when the bus master status is determined as idle, the boot core is powered off.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Chang, Kuo-Han. (2015). Method for managing power supply of multi-core processor system involves powering off main and slave cores when master bus is in idle state (U.S. Patent No. 8977880). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/8977880

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