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US 12,585,564 B2Granted
Methods for configuring span of control under varying temperature
AssigneeAdvanced Micro Devices, Inc.
InventorsAnthony Gutierrez, Yasuko Eckert, Sergey Blagodurov, Jagadish B. Kotra
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Abstract
A method may include, in response to a change in an operating parameter of a processing unit, modifying a signal pathway to a processing circuit component of the processing unit, and communicating with the processing circuit component via the signal pathway.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- detecting a decrease in an operational temperature of a processing unit below a threshold value;
- in response to the decrease in the operational temperature of the processing unit below the threshold value, enabling a processing circuit component and enabling a disabled signal pathway for accessing the enabled processing circuit component, wherein the enabled signal pathway is selected based on having a shortest length of a plurality of disabled signal pathways;
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- accessing the enabled processing circuit component via the enabled signal pathway.
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A computing device, comprising:
- a controller circuit configured to, in response to a decrease in an operational temperature of a processing unit below a threshold value, enable a first processing circuit component and a signal pathway for accessing the enabled first processing circuit component, wherein the enabled signal pathway is selected based on having a shortest length of a plurality of disabled signal pathways;
- a second processing circuit component configured to communicate with the enabled first processing circuit component via the enabled signal pathway;
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- the controller circuit further configured to disable the enabled first processing circuit component and the enabled signal pathway when the operational temperature of the processing unit increases above the threshold value.
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A computing system, comprising:
- a processing circuit component having at least a first region and a second region, wherein a first signal pathway for accessing the first region of the processing circuit component is enabled and wherein a second signal pathway for accessing the second region of the processing circuit component is disabled, wherein the second signal pathway is longer than the first signal pathway;
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- a processing unit configured to enable the second region of the processing circuit component and the second signal pathway for accessing the second region of the processing circuit component when a current operating temperature of the processing unit is below a threshold value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.