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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:
Sep. 05, 2017

Filed:

Dec. 22, 2011
Applicants:

Ryan D. Wells, Folsom, CA (US);

Avinash N. Ananthakrishnan, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Efraim Rotem, Haifa, IL;

Doron Rajwan, Rishon Le-Zion, IL;

Gary A. Andrew, El Dorado, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ryan D. Wells, Folsom, CA (US);

Avinash N. Ananthakrishnan, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Efraim Rotem, Haifa, IL;

Doron Rajwan, Rishon Le-Zion, IL;

Gary A. Andrew, El Dorado, CA (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3206 (2013.01); G06F 1/324 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1217 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to one embodiment of the invention, an integrated circuit device comprises one or more processor cores and a control unit coupled to the processor core(s). The control unit is adapted to control an operating frequency of at least one processor core based on an estimated activity level in lieu of a power level. The estimated activity level differing from an estimated power level by being independent of leakage power and voltage characteristics particular to that integrated circuit device.


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