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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:
May. 10, 2016

Filed:

Feb. 15, 2013
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Zhiguo Wang, Palo Alto, CA (US);

David J. Ayers, Fremont, CA (US);

Srikanth Balasubramanian, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Sukirti Gupta, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Stefan Rusu, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Stephen M. Ramey, North Plains, OR (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/26 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01); G06F 1/20 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/26 (2013.01); G06F 1/206 (2013.01); G06F 1/32 (2013.01); G06F 1/3206 (2013.01); G06F 1/3296 (2013.01); G06F 9/50 (2013.01); G06F 9/5094 (2013.01);
Abstract

In an embodiment, a processor includes voltage calculation logic to calculate a plurality of maximum operating voltage values each associated with a number of active cores of the plurality of cores, based at least in part on a plurality of coefficient values. In this way, the processor can operate at different maximum operating voltages dependent on the number of active cores. Other embodiments are described and claimed.


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