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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 05, 2012
Applicant:

Bin Wu, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventor:

Bin Wu, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/26 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01); G06F 7/58 (2006.01); G06F 11/22 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3228 (2013.01); G06F 1/324 (2013.01); G06F 1/3243 (2013.01); G06F 1/3296 (2013.01); G06F 7/582 (2013.01); G06F 7/588 (2013.01); G06F 9/505 (2013.01); G06F 11/0724 (2013.01); G06F 11/2236 (2013.01); G06F 2209/5019 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1217 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1239 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1285 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and apparatus controls power consumption of at least one processor core by generating dynamic voltage and clock frequency scaling control information based on stochastic controller control parameters and workload performance error data. A processor core's voltage and clock frequency is varied based on the generated dynamic voltage and clock frequency scaling control information. In one example, a stochastic controller, is coupled to a dynamic voltage and clock frequency scaling (DVFS) circuit. The stochastic controller uses the stochastic controller control parameters and workload performance error data and generates the dynamic voltage and clock frequency scaling control information to control the DVFS circuit. Related methods are also disclosed.


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