摘要:
In one embodiment, there is provided a method comprising determining a target operating point for an electronic device, the target operating point including a target operating frequency and a target operating voltage; and dynamically changing a current operating point for the electronic device including a current operating frequency and a current operating voltage by non-contemporaneously changing the current operating frequency to the target operating frequency and a current operating voltage to the target operating voltage, wherein during the changing the electronic device is in an active state.
摘要:
An on-die temperature control variable is provided to throttle a thermal actuator for cooling an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes a storage element to hold the temperature control variable. A temperature sensor is thermally coupled to the integrated circuit to sense an operating temperature of the integrated circuit. A thermal controller is communicatively coupled to the storage element and to the temperature sensor. The thermal controller throttles the thermal actuator when the temperature sensor indicates that the operating temperature of the integrated circuit is below the temperature control variable.
摘要:
An integrated circuit includes a first circuit, a second circuit, at least one test pad and multiplexing circuitry. The second circuit is coupled to the first circuit and has substantially the same design as the first circuit to emulate an electrical characteristic of the first circuit. The multiplexing circuitry selectively couples the test pad(s) to the second circuit to selectively measure the electrical characteristic.
摘要:
A dual mode clock input buffer is disclosed. The input buffer includes a first portion for handling a single ended high voltage clock signal and a second portion for handling a differential low voltage clock signal.
摘要:
The operating voltage of an integrated circuit (e.g., a processor) is changed in response to one or more conditions (e.g., a laptop computer is connected to an AC power source). Both the operating frequency and the operating voltage of the integrated circuit are changed. The voltage regulator providing the operating voltage to the integrated circuit is caused to transition between voltage levels using one or more intermediate steps. The integrated circuit continues to operate in the normal manner both at the new voltage and throughout the voltage transition.
摘要:
Methods and mechanisms to simultaneously regulate two or more supply voltages provided to an integrated circuit by a voltage regulator. In an embodiment of the invention, a voltage regulation message exchanged between the integrated circuit and the voltage regulator includes an identifier indicating two or more supply voltages selected from a plurality of supply voltages provided to the integrated circuit by the voltage regulator, where the voltage regulation message relates to the indicated two or more supply voltages. In another embodiment, the voltage regulation message indicates a desired supply voltage level to which the indicated two or more supply voltages are to transition.
摘要:
Methods and mechanisms to simultaneously regulate two or more supply voltages provided to an integrated circuit by a voltage regulator. In an embodiment of the invention, a voltage regulation message exchanged between the integrated circuit and the voltage regulator includes an identifier indicating two or more supply voltages selected from a plurality of supply voltages provided to the integrated circuit by the voltage regulator, where the voltage regulation message relates to the indicated two or more supply voltages. In another embodiment, the voltage regulation message indicates a desired supply voltage level to which the indicated two or more supply voltages are to transition.
摘要:
In one embodiment, there is provided a method comprising determining a target operating point for an electronic device, the target operating point including a target operating frequency and a target operating voltage; and dynamically changing a current operating point for the electronic device including a current operating frequency and a current operating voltage by non-contemporaneously changing the current operating frequency to the target operating frequency and a current operating voltage to the target operating voltage, wherein during the changing the electronic device is in an active state.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for optimizing clock distribution in a circuit to reduce the effect of power supply noise. Parameters are determined including: a response curve of a power source for a circuit, a delay sensitivity of a clock net in the circuit to the power source, a delay sensitivity of a data net in the circuit to the power source, a data delay for the data net, and a clock delay for the clock net. The clock delay is adjusted to reduce the effect of power supply noise on the data net. The adjusting is based on the response curve of the power source, the delay sensitivity of the clock net, the delay sensitivity of the data net, the data delay, and the clock delay. The adjusting includes adding a pre-distribution clock delay.
摘要:
A multi-stage assembly is disclosed, including a plurality of stages successively arranged, each having a controllable circuit portion and a controlling switching portion coupled thereto. The controlling switching portions have one or more ON/OFF switches which can be MOS transistors, CMOS circuits, etc. A first end of each ON/OFF switch of each controlling switching portion is coupled to a separate node of the controllable circuit portion of that stage and, also, is coupled, respectively, to a second end of a corresponding switch in an adjacent succeeding stage thereby to form selectively actuated one or more strings of series-coupled ON/OFF switches. All switches in an individual string being substantially simultaneously either turned ON or turned OFF. In one such disclosed application, although not limited thereto, the multi-stage assembly features a multi-stage reconfigurable impedance network or, for that matter, a low current/low power biasing network or analog circuit including a cascade arrangement of duplicate circuits in a manner which reduces errors in the output resulting from leakage currents in the turned OFF transistor switches. The number of stages employed, which can be expanded to take into account future scale-downs, also, are based on the level of reduction of subthreshold conduction needed to conform to the error reduction requirements of the circuitry.