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US 2015/0012764 A1Published application
Method And Apparatus For Power Control
AssigneeCavium, Inc.
InventorsDavid A. Carlson, Richard E. Kessler
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention relate to limiting maximum power dissipation occurred in a processor. Therefore, when an application that requires excessive amounts of power is being executed, the execution of the application may be prevented to reduce dissipated or consumed power.
Claims16
A method comprising:
- operatively coupling a temperature sensor chip to a computer chip;
- tracking the temperature of the computer chip by monitoring temperature sensed by the temperature sensor chip;
- reducing performance in the computer chip to reduce temperature of the computer chip, in an event the monitored temperature exceeds a threshold.
An apparatus comprising:
- a diode interface operatively coupled to a thermal diode of a computer chip and to a temperature sensor chip external to the computer chip;
- a temperature monitor module to track temperature of the computer chip by monitoring temperature sensed by the external temperature sensor chip via the diode interface;
- a performance reduction module to reduce performance in the computer chip to reduce temperature of the computer chip, in an event the monitored temperature exceeds a threshold.
A method comprising:
- operatively coupling a temperature sensor chip to a computer chip;
- tracking the temperature of the computer chip by monitoring temperature sensed by the temperature sensor chip;
- reducing power consumption of the chip to reduce temperature of the computer chip, in an event the monitored temperature exceeds a threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.