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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2013
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Baskaran Ganesan, Bangalore, IN;
Eric Dehaemer, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Vinod Ambrose, Northborough, MA (US);
Harjinder Hullon, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Joseph Doucette, Waltha, MA (US);
Seow Fung Ooi, Gelugor, MY;
Min Huang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Zhiguo Wang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Yin-Lung Lu, Hillsboro, OR (US);
William Johnson Bowhill, Framingham, MA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, a processor includes a plurality of cores grouped into a plurality of clusters. The clusters are formed based on a corresponding operating voltage of each core at each of a plurality of frequencies. Each cluster includes a unique set of cores and at least one cluster includes at least two of the cores. The processor also includes a power control unit (PCU) including frequency/voltage control logic, responsive to a frequency change request for a first core of a first cluster, to determine an operating voltage for the first core from a first cluster voltage-frequency (V-F) table associated with the first cluster. The first cluster V-F table uniquely specifies a corresponding operating voltage at each of a plurality of frequencies of operation of the cores of the first cluster. Other embodiments are described and claimed.