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US 8,046,618 B2Granted
Semiconductor chip operating with minimal power consumption
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorMutsuhiro Ohmori
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a semiconductor chip including: a plurality of processing devices that can communicate with each other; wherein each of the processing devices includes an arithmetic unit, an individual memory connected to the arithmetic unit on a one-to-one basis, and a control unit configured to independently control turning on and off of operation of the arithmetic unit and the individual memory.
Claims11
A semiconductor chip comprising:
- a plurality of processing devices that can communicate with each other;
- wherein each of said processing devices includes
- an arithmetic unit,
- an individual memory connected to said arithmetic unit on a one-to-one basis, and
- a plurality of control units configured to independently control turning on and off of operation of said arithmetic unit and said individual memory, wherein the plurality of control units are separately connected to said arithmetic unit and said individual memory.
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A semiconductor chip comprising:
- a plurality of processing devices that can communicate with each other;
- a main processing device configured to supply each of said processing devices with a control signal for performing control according to a role allotted to each of said processing devices;
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- a bus for connecting said plurality of processing devices to an external part;
- wherein each of said processing devices includes
- an arithmetic unit,
- an individual memory connected to said arithmetic unit on a one-to-one basis, and
- a plurality of control units configured to independently control turning on and off of operation involving power consumption of said arithmetic unit and said individual memory according to a control signal supplied by said main processing device, wherein the plurality of control units are separately connected to said arithmetic unit and said individual memory.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.