Autonomous hardware for application power usage optimization

A method for managing power consumption within circuitry, wherein the circuitry is partitioned into power sections, wherein each of the power sections is configured so that its power consumption is independently controllable from every other power section, wherein the power consumption by each of the power sections is less when the power section is turned off than when the power section is turned on, the method comprising:

• determining that a first group of one or more of the power sections can be turned off for a successful running of an application program within the circuitry;
• recording a designation of the first group in a set of registers;
• determining that a second group of one or more of the power sections, other than the one or more of the power sections in the first group, needs to be turned on for the successful running of the application program within the circuitry;
• recording a designation of the second group in the set of registers, wherein the designations of the first and second groups represent an initial baseline setting recorded within the set of registers designating which of the one or more power sections are to be turned on and which of the one or more power sections are to be turned off for subsequent running of the application program within the circuitry;
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• running the application program within the circuitry in accordance with the initial baseline setting recorded within the set of registers,
• wherein the recording of the initial baseline setting within the set of registers is performed as part of a self-calibration process that comprises:
• a settings selection process configured to determine a first selection of (1) the first group recorded in the set of registers designating which of the one or more of the power sections are to be turned on and (2) the second group recorded in the set of registers designating which of the one or more of the power sections are to be turned off;
• a validation process configured to evaluate if running the application program produces an application runtime error as a result of the first selection;
• a settings update process configured to determine that one or more of the power sections designated in the set of registers as a member of the first group in the initial baseline setting need to be turned on for the successful running of the application program if the application runtime error is produced during the validation process;
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• the settings update process configured to determine that one or more of the power sections designated in the set of registers as a member of the first group in the initial baseline setting can continue to be turned off during the running of the application program within the circuitry if no application runtime errors are produced during the validation process.