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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2015
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Navid Toosizadeh, San Diego, CA (US);
Mohammad Reza Kakoee, San Diego, CA (US);
Shih-Hsin Jason Hu, San Diego, CA (US);
Mohamed Waleed Allam, Rancho Santa Fe, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A method including receiving an indication of a number of active processing units in a computer processor; in response to receiving the indication, determining an appropriate operating voltage margin for the computer processor; reducing an operating frequency of the active processing units in response to receiving the indication; adjusting a power supply to increase or decrease a voltage to the computer processor in accordance with the appropriate operating voltage margin; and increasing the operating frequency of the active processing units in response to an acknowledgment that the power supply has been adjusted.