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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2018

Filed:

Mar. 12, 2014
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Omer Vikinski, Haifa, IL;

Igor Yanover, Yokneam Illit, IL;

Gavri Berger, Haifa, IL;

Gabi Malka, Haifa, IL;

Zeev Sperber, Zihron Ya'akov, IL;

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/26 (2006.01); G06F 1/28 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/26 (2013.01); G06F 1/28 (2013.01); G06F 1/329 (2013.01); G06F 9/5094 (2013.01); Y02D 10/24 (2018.01);
Abstract

A processor and method are described for performing proactive throttling of execution unit ports. For example, one embodiment of a processor core comprises: a plurality of execution unit ports within an execution stage of the processor core; a scheduler unit to schedule execution of a plurality of operations to the plurality of execution unit ports; and proactive throttling logic to limit acceleration of execution of the operations by the ports to an acceleration level which does not result in significant power supply droops.


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