Multi-purpose power controller and method

Abstract

The present invention provides a multi-purpose power controller and application specific standard product (ASSP) with improved block unification, reduced size and power, boot strapping, and power management. A multi-purpose field programmable non-volatile system power controller and ASSP initializing block may be embedded in a processor, such as a central processing unit (CPU), graphics processing unit (GPU), accelerated processing unit (APU), or other chipset. This controller and initializing block may be a configurable, while maintaining specialization, hardware block. This block may be implemented as a complex mid-size complex programmable logic devices (CPLD) or as a simple cascaded programmable logic array block, such as being the equivalent of a few hundred logic gates, for example.

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