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Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 06, 2013
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Lilly Huang, Portland, OR (US);

Krishnan Ravichandran, Saratoga, CA (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01); G01R 15/00 (2006.01); B23K 11/24 (2006.01); G06F 1/26 (2006.01); G06F 3/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/26 (2013.01); G06F 3/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus and method is described herein for providing a dynamic pulse scheme for a voltage supply. A load (current) demand event of a processor is either predicted and/or detected. In response to the current demand event, such as a change in the current demand; a temporary, transient voltage pulse is generated by a voltage supply to compensate for the current transient demand. As result, dynamic voltage supply pulses generated based on the load current or the prediction of the load current demand increases performance, decreases power consumption, and saves expensive addition of compensation components, such as capacitors to a processor package.


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