MANAGING POWER ON INTEGRATED CIRCUITS USING POWER ISLANDS

Systems and methods manage power in an integrated circuit using power islands. The integrated circuit includes a plurality of power islands where power consumption is independently controlled within each of the power islands. A power manager determines a target power level for one of the power islan...

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Main Authors HOBERMAN BARRY ALAN, SHIELL JON, HILLMAN DANIEL L
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Korean
Published 20.05.2010
Subjects
BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
CONTROLLING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
ELECTRICITY
PHYSICS
REGULATING
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
SYSTEMS FOR REGULATING ELECTRIC OR MAGNETIC VARIABLES
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Summary:Systems and methods manage power in an integrated circuit using power islands. The integrated circuit includes a plurality of power islands where power consumption is independently controlled within each of the power islands. A power manager determines a target power level for one of the power islands. The power manager then determines an action to change a consumption power level of the one of the power islands to the target power level. The power manager performs the action to change the consumption power level of the one of the power islands to the target power level.
Bibliography:Application Number: KR20107008956