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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2014
Nxp B.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Rinze Ida Mechtildis Peter Meijer, Herkenbosch, NL;
Ghiath Al-kadi, Eindhoven, NL;
NXP B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
Embodiments of a method and system are disclosed. One embodiment of an integrated circuit device is disclosed. The integrated circuit device includes first and second processor cores configured to perform a respective first and second set of functional processing. The integrated circuit device also includes a core-specific process state monitor associated with the first processor core, a core-specific process state monitor associated with the second processor core, a core-specific aging monitor associated with the first processor core, a core-specific aging monitor associated with the second processor core, a power management unit, a clock generation unit, and a control system configured to individually control operating points of the first and second processor cores and workload in response to feedback from the core-specific process state monitors and from the core-specific aging monitors.