US 2025/0060809 A1 · THROTTLING FOR POWER AND THERMAL MANAGEMENT

Abstract

Examples of throttling and unthrottling for power and/or thermal management of a computing device are described. In some examples, a power management unit coupled to the processor core is to determine when one or more of power and thermal operating characteristics of a system, of which the apparatus is a part of, are outside of a system constraint (e.g., a desired power or thermal level), and place one or more of devices coupled to the power management unit into a lower power level to meet the system constraint. In some examples, the one or more devices are input/output devices.

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Dependent claims

An apparatus comprising:

a processor core;
and
a power management unit coupled to the processor core to:
determine when one or more of power and thermal operating characteristics of a system, of which the apparatus is a part of, are outside of a system constraint, and
place one or more of devices coupled to the power management unit into a lower power state to meet the system constraint.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

18/375,487Filed 30 Sep 2023

Priority

IN 20234105557918 Aug 2023

Published

20 Feb 2025

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

G06F 1/3296
Power saving characterised by the action undertaken: by lowering the supply or operating voltage
G06F 1/206
Cooling means: comprising thermal management
G06F 1/3215
Monitoring of events, devices or parameters that trigger a change in power modality: monitoring of peripheral devices
G06F 1/3228
Monitoring of events, devices or parameters that trigger a change in power modality: monitoring task completion, e.g. by use of idle timers, stop…

Throttling for power and thermal management

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Abstract

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