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- Patent Title: Setting operating points for circuits in an integrated circuit chip using an integrated voltage regulator power loss model
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Application No.: US16440838Application Date: 2019-06-13
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Publication No.: US10560022B2Publication Date: 2020-02-11
- Inventor: Wei Huang , Miguel Rodriguez , Karthik Rao
- Applicant: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Current Assignee: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Park, Vaughan, Fleming & Dowler LLP
- Main IPC: H02M3/158
- IPC: H02M3/158 ; G05F1/575 ; G05F1/46 ; G05F1/56 ; H02M1/00

Abstract:
An apparatus includes an integrated circuit chip with a set of circuits having two or more subsets of circuits; an external voltage regulator separate from the integrated circuit chip; two or more integrated voltage regulators on the integrated circuit chip that each provide an input voltage to a respective subset of the circuits; and a controller. The controller determines, using an integrated voltage regulator power loss model, an electrical power loss for the integrated voltage regulators for a first combination of operating points for the subsets of the circuits. The controller then determines, based on the electrical power loss, a second combination of operating points for the subsets of the circuits that includes an adjustment to an operating point for at least one of the subsets of the circuits that compensates for an electrical power loss of the corresponding integrated voltage regulator. The controller sets an operating point of each of the subsets of the circuits based on the second combination of operating points.
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