公开(公告)号：US11106261B2

公开(公告)日：2021-08-31

申请号：US16179620

申请日：2018-11-02

Applicant: NVIDIA Corporation

Inventor： Aniket Naik ,  Siddharth Bhargav ,  Bardia Zandian ,  Narayan Kulshrestha ,  Amit Pabalkar ,  Arvind Gopalakrishnan ,  Justin Tai ,  Sachin Satish Idgunji

IPC: G06F1/00 ,  G06F1/26 ,  G06F1/3206 ,  G06F9/50 ,  G06F1/3296 ,  G06F1/28 ,  G06N20/00 ,  G06N5/04

Abstract: Integrated circuits, or computer chips, typically include multiple hardware components (e.g. memory, processors, etc.) operating under a shared power (e.g. thermal) constraint that is sourced by one or more power sources for the chip. Typically, the hardware components can be individually configured to operate at certain states (e.g. to operate at a certain frequency by setting a clock speed for a clock dedicated to the hardware component). Thus, each hardware component can be configured to operate at an operating point that is determined to be optimal, usually in terms of achieving some desired goal for a specific application (e.g. frame rates for gaming, etc.). In the context of chip hardware that operates under a shared power/thermal constraint, a method, computer readable medium, and system are provided for determining the optimal operating point for the chip that takes into consideration both performance of the chip and power consumption by the chip.