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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2015
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Nadav Bonen, Ofer, IL;
Ron Gabor, Hertzliya, IL;
Zeev Sperber, Zichron Yackov, IL;
Vjekoslav Svilan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David N. Mackintosh, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jose A. Baiocchi Paredes, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Naveen Kumar, San Jose, CA (US);
Shantanu Gupta, San Jose, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, the present invention includes an execution unit to execute instructions of a first type, a local power gate circuit coupled to the execution unit to power gate the execution unit while a second execution unit is to execute instructions of a second type, and a controller coupled to the local power gate circuit to cause it to power gate the execution unit when an instruction stream does not include the first type of instructions. Other embodiments are described and claimed.