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Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016

Filed:

Jun. 28, 2013
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Dorit Shapira, Atlit, IL;

Krishnakanth V. Sistla, Beaverton, OR (US);

Efraim Rotem, Haifa, IL;

Nadav Shulman, Tel Mond, IL;

Shmulik Zobel, Hinanit, IL;

Allen Chu, Portland, OR (US);

Assignee:

INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/3024 (2013.01); G06F 11/004 (2013.01); G06F 11/008 (2013.01); G06F 11/3058 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus and method for tracking stress on a processor and responsively controlling operating conditions. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: stress tracking logic to determine stress experienced by one or more portions of the processor based on current operating conditions of the one or more portions of the processor; and stress control logic to control one or more operating characteristics of the processor based on the determined stress and a target stress accumulation rate.


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