Systems and methods for providing local hardware limit management and enforcement

A method for providing hardware limit management and enforcement, the method comprising:

• a sensor module monitoring a chip component on a system on chip (SoC);
• storing sensor data from the sensor module in a local limit management (LLM) hardware component;
• storing a hardware limit associated with the sensor module in the LLM hardware component;
• comparing the sensor data to the hardware limit;
• and
• if the sensor data exceeds the hardware limit, initiating a predefined throttling action for enforcing the hardware limit.

A system for providing hardware limit management and enforcement, the system comprising:

• means for monitoring a chip component on a system on chip (SoC);
• means for storing sensor data from the sensor module in a local limit management (LLM) hardware component;
• means for storing a hardware limit associated with the sensor module in the LLM hardware component;
• means for comparing the sensor data to the hardware limit;
• and
• means for initiating a predefined throttling action for enforcing the hardware limit if the sensor data exceeds the hardware limit.

A system for managing and enforcing hardware limits on a system on chip (SoC), the system comprising:

• a system on chip comprising a plurality of chip components;
• and
• an interconnected network of local limit manager (LLM) components dispersed over an area of the SoC, each LLM component in communication with a corresponding sensor module that monitors one or more of the chip components, each LLM component comprising a generic hardware structure for enforcing one or more hardware limits associated with the corresponding sensor module;
• wherein the generic hardware structure of each LLM comprises:
• a sensor data register for storing the sensor data from the associated sensor module;
• a threshold register for storing one or more coefficients for determining whether the sensor data exceeds the one or more hardware limits;
• and
• a throttling actions register for storing one or more predefined throttling actions to be initiated if the sensor data exceeds the one or more hardware limits.