Power-up restriction

Techniques are disclosed relating to power management within an integrated circuits. In one embodiment an apparatus is disclosed that includes a circuit and a power management unit. The power management unit is configured to provide, based on a programmable setting, an indication of whether an attem...

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Main Authors DE CESARE, JOSH P, MACHNICKI, ERIK P, KEIL, SHANE J
Format Patent
LanguageChinese
English
Published 01.08.2014
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:Techniques are disclosed relating to power management within an integrated circuits. In one embodiment an apparatus is disclosed that includes a circuit and a power management unit. The power management unit is configured to provide, based on a programmable setting, an indication of whether an attempted communication to the circuit is permitted to cause the circuit to exit from a power-managed state. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes a fabric configured to transmit the attempted communication to the circuit from a device. In such an embodiment, the circuit is configured to exit the power-managed state in response to receiving the attempted communication. The fabric is configured to determine whether to transmit the attempted communication based on the indication provided by the power management unit.
Bibliography:Application Number: TW20143101855