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Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2018

Filed:

Feb. 01, 2016
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Dongkook Park, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Akhilesh Kumar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Donglai Dai, Pleasanton, CA (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/12 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01); H03K 19/00 (2006.01); H04J 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/12 (2013.01); G06F 1/3203 (2013.01); G06F 1/3206 (2013.01); G06F 1/3234 (2013.01); G06F 1/3246 (2013.01); G06F 1/3253 (2013.01); H03K 19/0008 (2013.01); H03K 19/0016 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1235 (2013.01); Y02B 60/34 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques for power gating. A first on-die router has an output port to receive data from a switching fabric. The output port is placed in a power-gated state if there is no activity in the output port for a current cycle and no messages are to be received by the output port during a subsequent cycle. A second on-die router has an input port coupled with the output port of the first on-die router. The input port is placed in a power-gated state if an input port buffer is empty and the output port is not active. Power-gating of the input port and the output port are independent of each other.


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