Invention Application
- Patent Title: METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING NON-COMPUTE UNIT POWER CONTROL IN INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
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Application No.: US17137925Application Date: 2020-12-30
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Publication No.: US20220206850A1Publication Date: 2022-06-30
- Inventor: Indrani Paul , Leonardo De Paula Rosa Piga , Mahesh Subramony , Sonu Arora , Donald Cherepacha , Adam N. C. Clark
- Applicant: ATI Technologies ULC
- Applicant Address: CA Markham
- Assignee: ATI Technologies ULC
- Current Assignee: ATI Technologies ULC
- Current Assignee Address: CA Markham
- Main IPC: G06F9/50
- IPC: G06F9/50 ; G06F11/30 ; G06F1/3203

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus employ a plurality of heterogeneous compute units and a plurality of non-compute units operatively coupled to the plurality of compute units. Power management logic (PML) determines a memory bandwidth level associated with a respective workload running on each of a plurality of heterogeneous compute units on the IC, and adjusts a power level of at least one non-compute unit of a memory system on the IC from a first power level to a second power level, based on the determined memory bandwidth levels. Memory access latency is also taken into account in some examples to adjust a power level of non-compute units.
Public/Granted literature
- US12056535B2 Method and apparatus for providing non-compute unit power control in integrated circuits Public/Granted day:2024-08-06
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