Operating processor below maximum turbo mode frequency by sending higher than actual current amount signal to monitor

A computer program product including computer usable program code embodied on a computer readable storage medium, the computer program product comprising:

• computer usable program code for causing a voltage regulator circuit to over-report the actual current drawn by a processor to a current monitoring feedback line of the processor operating at a turbo mode frequency step, wherein the processor uses the over-reported current to maintain operation of the processor within a predetermined power limit, temperature limit or current limit;
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• computer usable program code for automatically calibrating, for each of a plurality of selected turbo mode frequency steps of the processor, the amount of over-reported current that results in limiting the operating frequency of the processor to the selected turbo mode frequency that is lower than the maximum turbo mode frequency of the processor.