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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2015
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ati Technologies Ulc, Markham, CA;
Alexander J. Branover, Boxborogh, MA (US);
Adam N. C. Clark, Markham, CA;
Ashish Jain, Austin, TX (US);
Sridhar V. Gada, Bangalore, IN;
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
ATI Technologies ULC, Markham Ontario, CA;
Abstract
A power management controller tracks the idle state of a compute unit and compares the tracked idle state with a first threshold. If the tracked idle state is above the first threshold a power state of the compute unit is limited to a low power state so that the power state does not rise due to activity that occurs in low utilization scenarios. The tracked idle state is compared to a second threshold and if the tracked idle state is below the second threshold, indicating that the compute unit is not in a low utilization scenario, a limit on the power state is removed and the power state of the compute unit is allowed to rise.