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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2014
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Sumit Sur, Boulder, CO (US);
James M. Artmeier, Boulder, CO (US);
Mark D. Guzzi, Boulder, CO (US);
Philip T. Mueller, Jr., Boulder, CO (US);
Bohuslav Rychlik, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments of methods and systems for thermally aware scheduling of workloads in a portable computing device that contains a heterogeneous, multi-processor system on a chip ('SoC') are disclosed. Because individual processing components in a heterogeneous, multi-processor SoC may exhibit different processing efficiencies at a given temperature, and because more than one of the processing components may be capable of processing a given block of code, thermally aware workload scheduling techniques that compare performance curves of the individual processing components at their measured operating temperatures can be leveraged to optimize quality of service ('QoS') by allocating workloads in real time, or near real time, to the processing components best positioned to efficiently process the block of code.