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Patent No.:

US 9081558 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2015

Filed:

Feb. 06, 2014

System and method for dynamically controlling a plurality of cores in a multicore central processing unit based on tempature

Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sumit Sur, Boulder, CO (US);

Bohuslav Rychlik, San Diego, CA (US);

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

Ali Iranli, San Diego, CA (US);

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

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:

Nicholas A. Cole

Primary Examiner:

Jaweed A Abbaszadeh

Assistant Examiner:

Austin Hicks

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/26 (2006.01); G06F 1/20 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/26 (2013.01); G06F 1/206 (2013.01); G06F 1/3203 (2013.01); G06F 1/324 (2013.01); G06F 1/329 (2013.01); G06F 1/3287 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1217 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1275 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1282 (2013.01); Y02B 60/144 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of controlling power within a multicore central processing unit (CPU) is disclosed. The method may include monitoring a die temperature, determining a degree of parallelism within a workload of the CPU, and powering one or more cores of the CPU up or down based on the degree of parallelism, the die temperature, or a combination thereof.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Sur, Sumit. (2015). System and method for dynamically controlling a plurality of cores in a multicore central processing unit based on tempature (U.S. Patent No. 9081558). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9081558

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