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7281148 |
Power managed busses and arbitration
A variable speed bus has its frequency adjusted based upon bandwidth requirements of active units coupled to a variable speed bus. As units coupled to the bus are stopped, bandwidth requirements...
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7278033 |
Method and a system for determining the power consumption in connection with an electronic device, and an electronic device
The present invention relates to a method and a system for determining the power consumption in an electronic device, to which a peripheral device is connected, to which the power is supplied from...
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7277976 |
Multilayer system and clock control method
The multilayer system of this invention is characterized by the process when a first master such as a CPU to which a clock signal is constantly supplied from a clock generator activates a second...
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7278040 |
Mechanism for providing measured power management transitions in a microprocessor
An apparatus and method are provided that enable a computing device to make graceful power state transitions that do no impose unnecessary power surge compensations requirements on associated power...
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7272735 |
Dynamic power and workload management for multi-server system
Network architecture, computer system and/or server, circuit, device, apparatus, method, and computer program and control mechanism for managing power consumption and workload in computer system...
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RE39837 |
Method and apparatus for adjusting a power consumption level based on the amount of time a processor clock is stopped
A power management mechanism for use in a computer system having a bus, a memory for storing data and instructions, and a central processing unit (CPU). The CPU runs an operating system having a...
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7269752 |
Dynamically controlling power consumption within a network node
A method and system for controlling power consumption within a network node is disclosed. The method and system include dynamically controlling the power consumption of network processing engines...
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7269750 |
Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption in a graphics controller
The invention in one embodiment is a method of managing power in a graphics controller. The method includes receiving a change indication related to a system power supply. The method also includes...
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7266712 |
Method, system, and apparatus for dynamically configuring the operating point utilized for thermal management of an integrated circuit
Methods and circuits to define a thermal operating mode for a integrated device by defining an operating voltage and a frequency range.
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7263564 |
Inquiring apparatus and method thereof
An inquiring apparatus and method thereof is provided for assisting the CPU to inquire the state of the peripheral device. When the CPU needs to perform an inquiring process to wait for a...
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7263622 |
Power-saving device for controlling circuit operation, and information processing apparatus
An information processing apparatus includes a first function block which controls rendering and a second function block which controls operation modes of the first function block. The rendering is...
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7263624 |
Methods and apparatus for power control in a scalable array of processor elements
Low power architecture features and techniques are provided in a scalable array indirect VLIW processor. These features and techniques include power control of a reconfigurable register file,...
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7260732 |
Power regulation system and method for a portable electronic device
A power regulating system and method are provided for regulating power in a portable computing device. The portable computing device includes microprocessing and radio communication capabilities....
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7260106 |
Method and apparatus for managing energy usage of processors while executing protocol state machines
A method and apparatus of implementing protocol state machines that conserve energy on energy conscious devices is disclosed. Under this method, most of the energy consuming protocol state machine...
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7257659 |
Method for signaling PCI/PCI-X standard hot-plug controller (SHPC) command status
According to embodiments of the present invention, indicators on a PCI/PCI-X controlled by a Standard Hot-Plug Controller (SHPC) have non-fifty percent duty cycle blinking patterns that communicate...
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7257724 |
Method and apparatus for power management in a local area network
A method of power management for use in a local area network, in which a plurality of local area network nodes are supplied power over communication cabling, the method comprising: supplying power...
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7257720 |
Semiconductor processing device for connecting a non-volatile storage device to a general purpose bus of a host system
Disclosed herewith is a semiconductor data processing device that realizes low power consumption at the standby time and at the operation time, as well as speeds up the interfacing operation. The...
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7254724 |
Power management system
According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a power management system for use in a computer system having a memory system incorporating a non-volatile memory and a...
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7254721 |
System and method for controlling an intergrated circuit to enter a predetermined performance state by skipping all intermediate states based on the determined utilization of the intergrated circuit
A computer system has multiple performance states. The computer system periodically determines utilization information for the computer system and adjusts the performance state according to the...
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7254729 |
Processing system and memory module having frequency selective memory
A memory module and an apparatus having a memory module for generating an internal clock synchronized to an external clock, the memory module being operated based on the internal clock as an...
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7246225 |
Method and apparatus for implementing a sleep proxy for services on a network
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for implementing a sleep proxy. The system starts by receiving a request at the sleep proxy for information pertaining to a service...
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7237128 |
Method and apparatus to dynamically change an operating frequency and operating voltage of an electronic device
In one embodiment, there is provided a method comprising determining a target operating point for an electronic device, the target operating point including a target operating frequency and a...
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7237133 |
Power supply control circuit for memories, method thereof and apparatus equipped with memories
The power consumption is lowered in an apparatus equipped with memories. Assuming that memories are, for example, of DRAM type, each usage circumstance of DRAM modules on a chip is observed by an...
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7231531 |
Personal electronics device with a dual core processor
A novel personal electronic device includes a processor having first (embedded) and second (non-embedded) cores including associated operating systems and functions. In one aspect, the first core...
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7228243 |
Implementing a high resolution monotonic system clock
An application implementing a high resolution monotonic system clock is provided. A kernel increments a value called a generation number. The generation number is used to determine what state the...
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7228448 |
Method for making power supplies smaller and more efficient for high-power PCs
Systems and methods for reducing the size of a power supply in a computing device by monitoring activities to maintain the load on the power supply below a predetermined threshold. Through a set of...
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7228445 |
Clock frequency control method and electronic apparatus
An electronic apparatus includes a clock oscillator which supplies a clock signal, a processor which generates an internal clock on the basis of the clock signal supplied from the clock oscillator,...
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7225348 |
Electrical circuit having cooperating components
An electrical circuit including components which cooperate with each other, in which a component of the electrical circuit which is waiting for an action to be carried out by another component, is...
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7225346 |
Information processor, program, storage medium, and control method
There is provided an information processor including a central processing unit that includes an instruction execution module and has a normal mode for operating the instruction execution module and...
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7222251 |
Microprocessor idle mode management system
An idle mode system has a clock gating circuit, a bus interface unit, memory interfaces and an interrupt and idle control unit. The clock gating circuit receives a first clock and designated...
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7219243 |
Home network power saving device and method for the same
A home network system with a standby power saving function and a method for saving standby power thereof, wherein various home appliances exchange information with a home server from time to time....
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7219248 |
Semiconductor integrated circuit operable to control power supply voltage
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a CPU core unit, an on-chip-bus unit coupled to the CPU core unit, a on-chip memory directly connected to the on-chip-bus unit, and a voltage controlling...
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7219247 |
Methods and apparatus for replacing cooling systems in operating computers
An apparatus and method for replacing a CPU cooling system, for example, a fan, while a computer continues to operate has a mechanism for maintenance personnel to signal that cooling fan...
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7219246 |
Digital system having selectable clock speed based upon available supply voltage and PLL configuration register settings
Clock speed is controlled based upon the supply voltage to a digital device. When the supply voltage is below a reference voltage the clock speed will be slower than if the supply voltage is above...
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7219245 |
Adaptive CPU clock management
A method and system for efficiently managing power consumption in a digital processor controls the CPU clock rate based on actual CPU workload by monitoring a measure of the CPU's activity to...
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7213161 |
System for controlling the clock to each of a plurality of protocol circuits of an interface control integrated circuit based on the type of data to be transmitted
In an interface control semiconductor integrated circuit including a plurality of protocol circuits for processing a protocol such as AV- or PC-oriented protocols engaged in an IEEE 1394...
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7210048 |
Enterprise power and thermal management
Power consumption by a computer system may vary all the time based upon software and the workload. Facility such as data centers host multiple of computer systems. With continuous growing demand...
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7205973 |
Gradual dimming of backlit displays
Embodiments of the present invention generally provide methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture for gradually dimming backlit displays. The backlit displays may be gradually dimmed...
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7206951 |
Information-processing apparatus and method of controlling power saving
A power control driver of a BIOS has a function of changing a frequency of clock supplied to a CPU. According to the function of the power control driver, it is possible to set a normal mode for...
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7206883 |
Interruption control system and method
An interruption control system includes a first input/output interruption controller, a second input/output interruption controller, and an interruption control device bus. The first input/output...
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7206959 |
Closed-loop, supply-adjusted ROM memory circuit
The supply voltage of a memory system is adjusted in response to changes in the frequency of the clock signal. The memory system measures a time from when data becomes valid on the output of a...
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7206949 |
System and method for controlling a clock oscillator and power supply voltage based on the energy consumed for processing a predetermined amount of data
A processor capable of reducing power consumption of an electronic information device sends a frequency control signal to a clock oscillator, operates at a frequency in accordance with the...
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7206947 |
System and method for providing a persistent power mask
A system and method is provided to allow a computer network system to keep a device in a powered off state over a power cycle. A service processor stores the power state information or power mask...
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7206960 |
Bus clock frequency management based on device load
A frequency manager automatically selects a clock frequency for each device or bus, or for a plurality of devices or buses, in a system, based on various factors and objectives. These factors and...
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7206953 |
Asynchronous fault-tolerant enclosure services interface
The present invention provides method, interface and computer-readable medium for enabling enclosure services in a computer system including a multi-device enclosure generally remote from a host...
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7203853 |
Apparatus and method for low latency power management on a serial data link
An apparatus and method for low latency power management on a serial data link are described. In one embodiment, the method includes the detection of an electrical idle exit condition during...
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7203857 |
On-demand clock switching
First and second functional circuit blocks (FCBs) control the operation of a clock circuits coupled thereto in dependence upon processing requirements of the FCBs as well as power consumption...
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7203856 |
Mobile computer with desktop type processor
A mobile computer with a desktop type processor. The mobile computer further includes a battery, a current sensor, and a clock generator. The battery supplies a current to the desktop type...
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7200763 |
Method and apparatus for controlling the power consumption of a semiconductor device
A method and apparatus are provided for controlling the power consumption of a semiconductor device such as a CPU or other form of processor that is operable to process a sequence of instructions....
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7197419 |
System and method for thermal monitoring of IC using sampling periods of invariant duration
A system and method are provided for monitoring temperature within a specified integrated circuit. Usefully, the system comprises at least one oscillator device proximate to the integrated circuit...
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