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Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016

Filed:

Feb. 13, 2014
Applicant:

Wistron Corporation, New Taipei, TW;

Inventor:

Wen-Chun Tsao, New Taipei, TW;

Assignee:

Wistron Corporation, New Taipei, TW;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3243 (2013.01); G06F 9/4893 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1239 (2013.01); Y02B 60/144 (2013.01); Y02B 60/32 (2013.01);
Abstract

An embedded controller for power-saving and a method thereof are provided. The embedded controller is used for executing a plurality of tasks and includes a timer module and a control unit. The timer module includes a plurality of timers, and each of timers is corresponding to one of the tasks respectively. The control unit is coupled to the timer module and respectively sets a wake-up period according to each task. When the wake-up period of each timer is expired, each timer respectively generates a wake-up signal to the control unit. The control unit controls the embedded controller to transfer to an active model from an idle model according to the wake-up signals respectively. After executing the tasks corresponding to the wake-up signals respectively, the control unit controls the embedded controller to transfer to the idle model from the active model.


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