Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Power gating a portion of a cache memory
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Application No.: US13715613Application Date: 2012-12-14
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Publication No.: US09183144B2Publication Date: 2015-11-10
- Inventor: Ren Wang , Ahmad Samih , Eric Delano , Pinkesh J. Shah , Zeshan A. Chishti , Christian Maciocco , Tsung-Yuan Charlie Tai
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F1/32
- IPC: G06F1/32 ; G06F12/08

Abstract:
In an embodiment, a processor includes multiple tiles, each including a core and a tile cache hierarchy. This tile cache hierarchy includes a first level cache, a mid-level cache (MLC) and a last level cache (LLC), and each of these caches is private to the tile. A controller coupled to the tiles includes a cache power control logic to receive utilization information regarding the core and the tile cache hierarchy of a tile and to cause the LLC of the tile to be independently power gated, based at least in part on this information. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140173207A1 Power Gating A Portion Of A Cache Memory Public/Granted day:2014-06-19
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