Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dynamic power limit sharing in a platform
- Patent Title (中): 动态功率极限共享平台
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Application No.: US14867490Application Date: 2015-09-28
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Publication No.: US09557804B2Publication Date: 2017-01-31
- Inventor: Ankush Varma , Krishnakanth V. Sistla , Cesar A. Quiroz , Vivek Garg , Martin T. Rowland , Inder M. Sodhi , James S. Burns
- 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 ; G06F1/26

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for dynamic power limit sharing among the modules in the platform. In one embodiment of the invention, the platform comprises a processor and memory modules. By expanding the power domain to include the processor and the memory modules, dynamic sharing of the power budget of the platform between the processor and the memory modules is enabled. For low-bandwidth workloads, the dynamic sharing of the power budget offers significant opportunity for the processor to increase its frequency by using the headroom in the memory power and vice versa. This enables higher peak performance for the same total platform power budget in one embodiment of the invention.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160018883A1 DYNAMIC POWER LIMIT SHARING IN A PLATFORM Public/Granted day:2016-01-21
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