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Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 09, 2015
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

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);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3296 (2013.01); G06F 1/324 (2013.01); G06F 1/3206 (2013.01); Y02D 10/126 (2018.01); Y02D 10/172 (2018.01);
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.


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