公开(公告)号：US20170168118A1

公开(公告)日：2017-06-15

申请号：US15357312

申请日：2016-11-21

Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION

Inventor： Efraim Rotem ,  NIR ROSENZWEIG ,  JEFFREY A. CARLSON ,  PHILIP R. LEHWALDER ,  NADAV SHULMAN ,  Doron Rajwan

IPC: G01R31/36 ,  G01R22/10 ,  G01R21/133

CPC classification number: G01R31/3648 ,  G01R21/133 ,  G01R22/10 ,  G01R31/3624

Abstract: Examples are disclosed for an integrated circuit (IC) device coupled to a battery-operated power supply unit, such as an IC in a mobile computing device or wireless phone, to accurately determine energy usage drawn from the power supply unit under rapidly dynamic circumstances. A current sense signal of a power line from the power supply unit is digitized. The digitized current sense is added to an accumulator at a rate that is approximately proportional to a voltage of the power line from the power supply unit. The accumulator is then outputted and scaled to units relevant to energy measurements. The energy measurement is used to estimate remaining battery life. Triggering the digitization of the current sense signal may be by use of a pulse generation circuit, or by use of an overflow indicator of an accumulator for a digitized voltage sense signal. Other examples are described and claimed.

公开(公告)号：US20170293332A1

公开(公告)日：2017-10-12

申请号：US15093042

申请日：2016-04-07

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： EFRAIM ROTEM ,  TOD F. SCHIFF ,  DORON RAJWAN ,  JEFFREY M. JULL ,  JAMES G. HERMERDING, II ,  NIR ROSENZWEIG ,  MAYTAL TOLEDANO ,  ALEXANDER B. UAN-ZO-LI

IPC: G06F1/26 ,  G08B21/18

Abstract: One embodiment provides an apparatus. The apparatus includes power control logic and a critical comparator. The power control logic is to determine a critical threshold (TC) based, at least in part, on an available input power value (Pin). The critical comparator is to compare a system power consumption value (Psys) and the critical threshold and to assert a processor critical throttle signal to a processor if the system power consumption value is greater than or equal to the critical threshold.

公开(公告)号：US20210018971A1

公开(公告)日：2021-01-21

申请号：US17042804

申请日：2018-05-01

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： EFRAIM ROTEM ,  ELIEZER WEISSMANN ,  ERIC DEHAEMER ,  ALEXANDER GENDLER ,  NADAV SHULMAN ,  KRISHNAKANTH SISTLA ,  NIR ROSENZWEIG ,  ANKUSH VARMA ,  ARIEL SZAPIRO ,  ARYE ALBAHARI ,  IDO MELAMED ,  NIR MISGAV ,  VIVEK GARG ,  NIMROD ANGEL ,  ADWAIT PURANDARE ,  ELKANA KOREM

IPC: G06F1/329 ,  G06F1/3206 ,  G06F9/48 ,  G06F9/30 ,  G06F9/4401

Abstract: A local power control arbiter is provided to interface with a global power control unit of a processing platform having a plurality of processing entities. The local power control arbiter controls a local processing unit of the processing platform. The local power arbiter has an interface to receive from the global power control unit, a local performance limit allocated to the local processing unit depending on a global power control evaluation and processing circuitry to determine any change to one or more processing conditions prevailing in the local processing unit on a timescale shorter than a duration for which the local performance limit is applied to the local processing unit by the global power control unit and to select a performance level for the local processing unit depending on both the local performance limit and the determined change, if any, to the prevailing processing conditions on the local processing unit.