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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2014
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:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
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.