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Electrical Computers And Digital Processing Systems: Support > Computer Power Control > Power Conservation > By Clock Speed Control (e.g., Clock On/off) By Clock Speed Control (e.g., Clock On/off)By Clock Speed Control (e.g., Clock On/off) patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.11/15/07 - 20070266269 - Electronic apparatus and peak power-controlling method related thereto An electronic apparatus (200) comprises processors (20)-(22), devices (30)-(33), and a peak power-managing unit (10). The peak power-managing unit (10) includes a power information storage unit (11) operable to store a total power consumption value, and a suspended request storage unit (12) operable to store suspended use requests. Each of ... 11/15/07 - 20070266268 - Power management A SIMD processor architecture (2) for processing a stream of data vectors is provided, the architecture comprising a processor array (4) comprising a plurality of processors (PE(0), . . . , (PE(N)), each processor ((PE(0), . . . PE(N)) being adapted to process a data element in each vector, the ... 10/25/07 - 20070250729 - Thermal and power management for computer systems Improved approaches to providing thermal and power management for a computing device are disclosed. These approaches facilitate intelligent control of a processor's clock frequency and/or a fan's speed so as to provide thermal and/or power management for the computing device. ... 10/11/07 - 20070240003 - Method for implementing thermal management in a processor and/or apparatus and/or system employing the same A method for detecting temperature associated with a processor, results of the detecting being used for controlling power dissipation associated with the processor and/or apparatus and/or system employing the same. ... 10/04/07 - 20070234091 - Multithreaded dynamic voltage-frequency scaling microprocessor A multithreaded microprocessor includes a thread scheduler and voltage-frequency scheduler (VFS). The thread scheduler uses application-specified QoS requirements, which include required instruction completion rates, and instruction completion information from execution units to schedule the priorities of the threads at which the thread scheduler issues instructions to the execution units. Concurrently, ... 08/09/07 - 20070186123 - Application software initiated speedup The invention discloses an instruction, processor, system and method which allow application level software to explicitly request a temporary performance boost, from computing hardware. More specifically it relates to advanced management of working frequency of a processor in order to achieve the performance boost. Preferably a processor according to the ... 07/26/07 - 20070174645 - Multimedia video and audio player A multimedia video and audio player includes an upper cover, and a main body; the upper cover includes a display screen for showing characters, figures, and images; the main body is pivoted to the upper cover, and it includes a holding recess for holding a portable multimedia player, a forwards ... 05/31/07 - 20070124618 - Optimizing power and performance using software and hardware thermal profiles A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer usable code are provided for using software and hardware thermal profiles to schedule the execution of applications. Hardware and software thermal profiles are generated for a set of processors and a set of applications, respectively, to form a plurality of hardware ... 05/17/07 - 20070113113 - Data processing arrangement A data processing arrangement including a plurality of processing units. Each processing unit has a processing element, a data memory, a fill level unit, and a control unit. The processing element processes data stored in the data memory, or the data memory stores results of data processing performed by the ... 04/05/07 - 20070079160 - Controller and method of controlling multiprocessor According to one embodiment, there is provided a controller for use in a multiprocessor incorporating a plurality of processors on one chip. The controller includes a communication section to perform communication with the plurality of processors, and a control section to perform control of switching operation states of the plurality ... 02/22/07 - 20070043964 - Reducing power consumption in multiprocessor systems Techniques that may be utilized in a multiprocessor system to reduce power consumption are described. In one embodiment, one or more internal components of a processor core are clocked at least partially by a frequency controlled clock signal. ... 01/18/07 - 20070016815 - Cpu power management based on utilization with lowest performance mode at the mid-utilization range A demand-based method and system of a processor power management is described. A processor is caused to enter a particular performance mode based on a first and a second utilization threshold. The particular performance mode includes at least a first performance mode, a second performance mode, and a third performance ... 01/04/07 - 20070006007 - Frequency-dependent voltage control in digital logic An electronic circuit comprises at least one digital logic circuit; and a power control circuit. The power control circuit is operable to adjust the voltage of a power signal supplied to the at least one digital logic circuit in response to a change in a clock frequency provided to the ... 01/04/07 - 20070006006 - System and method of managing clock speed in an electronic device A method of controlling a clock frequency is disclosed and includes monitoring a plurality of master devices that are coupled to a bus within a system. The method also includes receiving an input from at least one of the plurality of master devices. The input can be a request an ... 12/14/06 - 20060282694 - Integrated circuit conserving power during transitions between normal and power-saving modes An integrated circuit includes a volatile memory, a central processing unit that normally operates on a first clock, and an input-output circuit that transfers data in synchronization with a second clock having a lower frequency than the first clock. The integrated circuit has a power-saving mode in which the volatile ... 10/12/06 - 20060230301 - System and method for adjusting execution frequency of a central processing unit A method for adjusting execution frequency of a central processing unit (CPU) in an electronic apparatus is provided. The method includes the steps of: (a) obtaining a state of a CPU workload in real time; (b) checking a property frequency and an execution frequency of the CPU; (c) determining whether ... 09/21/06 - 20060212735 - System and method of compensating for the effects of on-chip processing variation on an integrated circuit A system and method of compensating for effects of on-chip processing variation on an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit is divided into a set of regions. Then, a region control logic, included in each region, predicts a processing variation in each respective region of the integrated circuit. Finally, each region ... 09/14/06 - 20060206740 - Systems and methods for controlling instruction throughput Systems and methods for controlling instruction throughput are disclosed. One embodiment of a system may comprise a comparator that determines a difference value in an actual instructions per clock cycle throughput and a target instructions per clock cycle throughput setting, and a throttle control that sums a plurality of difference ... 09/14/06 - 20060206739 - Method and circuit for reducing leakage and increasing read stability in a memory device A device and method for increasing the read stability of a memory device includes sizing a sleep transistor according to a size ratio of the transistor relative to a driver transistor forming part of the memory device based on a static noise margin value. A leakage reduction circuit and method ... 08/31/06 - 20060195711 - Microcomputer In an EEPROM of a microcomputer, data is stored for determining a communication rate CMR for fixing the data transmission time of one frame managed by a communication circuit on the basis of an oscillation output characteristic of a CR oscillating circuit that varies in accordance with temperature. CPU reads ... 08/03/06 - 20060174148 - Controller and method for power-down mode in memory card system Disclosed is a controller and method for regulating a power-down mode in a memory card system. The memory card controller includes a central processor unit, a direct memory accessing (DMA) unit, a buffer, and a power-down detector. The central processor unit accepts commands from a host and the DMA unit ... 07/06/06 - 20060149984 - Positioning signal receiving apparatus A GPS receiver is alternately switched between sleep conditions under which between sleep conditions under which a temperature-compensated crystal oscillator is shut off for a specific sleep time while a real-time clock section is kept operational and normal operating conditions under which both the temperature-compensated crystal oscillator and the real-time ... 06/22/06 - 20060136764 - Methods and apparatus to manage power consumption of a system A method and apparatus to manage power consumption of a system is provided. The method may include altering power consumption of a stream processing system based on information from a data stream to be processed by the stream processing system. Other embodiments are described and claimed. ... 06/22/06 - 20060136763 - Method and apparatus for on-demand power management An apparatus for on-demand power management including a system controller, a clock domain manager coupled to the system controller and a power distribution manager coupled to the system controller. The system controller monitors a processing demand in a processing system. The clock domain manager provides one or more clock frequencies ... 06/15/06 - 20060129859 - Turning off clock to flip flops Exemplary techniques for turning off the clock signal to flip flops are described, which may reduce power consumption by electronic devices. In an implementation, a clock-gating logic turns off the clock signal to a flip flop when a data input of the flip flop remains untoggled. The reduction in power ... 06/08/06 - 20060123263 - Method, system, and apparatus for improving multi-core processor performance A system, apparatus, and method for a core rationing logic to enable cores of a multi-core processor to adhere to various power and thermal constraints. ... 06/08/06 - 20060123262 - Adaptive power management in portable entertainment device Battery life in portable entertainment devices that play fixed-length music or video files (e.g., MP3 music files) is extended by adaptively adjusting the speed of a processor in the device such that only a minimum number of MIPS are performed to playback the music or video files. Slowing the processor ... 06/08/06 - 20060123261 - Deep power saving by disabling clock distribution without separate clock distribution for power management logic An apparatus, a method, and a computer program are provided to disable clock distribution. In microprocessors, the clock distribution system can account for a substantial amount of power consumption. Disabling the clock distribution system, however, has been difficult because of the usual requirement for a separate clock for control logic. ... 04/20/06 - 20060085660 - Automatic dynamic processor operating voltage control A technique to adjust a processor's operating voltage dynamically while preventing a user from placing the processor into a harmful operating voltage state in relation to the core/bus frequency ratio of the processor. More particularly, embodiments of the invention relate to a technique to control the operating voltage of the ... 04/13/06 - 20060080563 - Power save module for storage controllers A method and system using a storage controller for transferring data between a storage device and a host system is provided. The storage controller includes, a power save module that is enabled in a power save mode after a receive logic in the storage controller has processed all frames and ... 04/06/06 - 20060075271 - Methods, devices and circuits for activating a communication device connected to an external bus Methods for activating operations of a communication device coupled to an external communication bus include detecting a communication event on the external communication bus at a wake up circuit while a host controller coupled to the external communication bus is in an inactive state. An interrupt signal is provided to ... 03/02/06 - 20060047987 - Dynamic clock frequency adjustment based on processor load In general, the disclosure is directed to techniques for reducing power consumption within computing devices, such as wireless communication devices. A device dynamically adjusts the CPU clock frequency based on CPU load in order to reduce power consumption. The device monitors the load of the CPU using a number of ... 02/23/06 - 20060041766 - Methods of clock throttling in an integrated circuit Thermal throttling control to safely throttle clocks OFF and ON in an integrated circuit. Digital thermal throttling control is provided to gradually throttle a clock's frequency from ON to OFF and from OFF to ON. The gradual throttling can minimize an instantaneous current rise that would otherwise occur with a ... 02/02/06 - 20060026447 - Power management coordination in multi-core processors Systems and methods of managing power provide for issuing a first operating requirement from a first processor core and issuing a second operating requirement from a second processor core. In one embodiment, the operating requirements can reflect either a power policy or a performance policy, depending upon the factor that ... 01/26/06 - 20060020838 - Method, apparatus and system of adjusting one or more performance-related parameters of a processor Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, apparatus and system for dynamically adjusting one or more performance-related parameters of a processor core based on at least one operation parameter related to an operating condition of the processor core. ... 12/29/05 - 20050289377 - Apparatus and method for reducing power consumption in a graphics processing device Briefly, the present invention includes a method and an apparatus for reducing power consumption in a graphics processing device. The apparatus and method include a memory module monitoring device operative to receive a memory module status signal from memory modules. The memory module monitoring device is operative to generate a ... 12/22/05 - 20050283630 - Changing of operating voltage in semiconductor integrated circuit A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a module configured to operate based on a clock signal, a voltage controlling unit configured to change a power supply voltage supplied to the module, a clock generating unit configured to supply the clock signal to the module, and a test circuit configured to operate ... 12/22/05 - 20050283629 - Processor system, instruction sequence optimization device, and instruction sequence optimization program To reduce power consumption of a processor system including a plurality of processors without degradation of the processing ability, a flag detecting section detects an assignment control flag and a clock control flag added to instruction code. An instruction assignment controlling section outputs the instruction code to a CPU or ... 12/15/05 - 20050278561 - Electronic devices and operational methods that change clock frequencies that are applied to a central processing unit and a main system bus An electronic device includes a central processing unit (CPU) and a main system bus. The central processing unit operates at a first clock frequency and the main system bus operates at a second clock frequency that is lower than the first clock frequency, responsive to the electronic device being in ... 12/08/05 - 20050273637 - Method and system for generating clocks for standby mode operation in a mobile communication device Reducing power while in standby mode may comprise monitoring for an occurrence of at least one event requiring a transition out of a standby mode while utilizing a lower frequency, less accurate, and low power standby clock signal while operating in the standby mode. After receiving the occurrence of the ... 12/08/05 - 20050273636 - Predictive processor speed governor A processor-based system accessing a performance profile for a program executing on a predetermined data set, executing the program on the predetermined data set, and governing processor speed in a predictive manner based at least in part on the performance profile. ... 12/01/05 - 20050268130 - Data processor It is aimed at providing a data processor capable of suppressing a sudden current change from the viewpoint of a synchronization clock. A data processor 1 comprises a clock pulse generation circuit and a circuit module operating on input clock signal CLKi output from the clock pulse generation circuit. In ... 12/01/05 - 20050268129 - Automatic clock speed control 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 the reference voltage. A phase-lock-loop (PLL) may be used to generate a higher frequency that ... 12/01/05 - 20050268128 - Heat dissipation device and control method for same A heat dissipation device for cooling an electronic device. The heat dissipation device comprises a fan, a controller connected to the fan and coupled to the electronic device and a sensor connected to the controller and sending a first signal to the controller by detecting a temperature variation in the ... 11/10/05 - 20050251698 - Cuttable illuminated panel An illumination apparatus is provided having a panel including a plurality of circuit units on a dielectric surface. The circuit units include electrically conductive traces and at least one light emitting diode (LED). At least some of the circuit units have contacts for supplying power to the LED. The circuit ... 10/06/05 - 20050223258 - Apparatus employing real-time power conservation and thermal management An apparatus employing a monitor for detecting temperature associated with a processor and, depending on the respective embodiment, detecting an amount of idle time, activity time, or idle time and activity time associated with the processor, results of detecting being used for controlling a clock speed. Yet other embodiments disclose, ... 10/06/05 - 20050223257 - Processor employing implementing real-time power conservation and thermal management A processor that utilizes a monitor for detecting temperature associated with the processor and, depending on the respective embodiment, detecting an amount of idle time, activity time, or idle time and activity time associated with the processor, results of detecting being used for controlling a clock speed. Yet other embodiments ... 10/06/05 - 20050223256 - Method for implementing thermal and power management in a processor and/or apparatus and/or system employing the same A method for detecting temperature associated with a processor and, depending on the respective embodiment, detecting an amount of idle time, activity time, or idle time and activity time associated with the processor, results of detecting being used for controlling a clock speed. Yet other embodiments disclose, depending upon the ... 10/06/05 - 20050223255 - Method for implementing thermal and power management in a processor and/or apparatus and/or system employing the same A method for detecting temperature and a work load level associated with a processor, results of the detecting being used for controlling power dissipation associated with the processor and/or apparatus and/or system employing the same. ... 10/06/05 - 20050223254 - Method for implementing thermal and power management in a processor and/or apparatus and/or system employing the same A method for detecting temperature and activity associated with a processor, results of the detecting being used for controlling power dissipation associated with the processor and/or apparatus and/or system employing the same. ... 10/06/05 - 20050223253 - 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, conditional power control of multi-cycle operations and indirect VLIW utilization, and power control of VLIW-based vector processing using the ManArray register file indexing ... 10/06/05 - 20050223252 - System and method for controlling output-timing parameters of power converters A system and method is provided for utilizing output-timing data to control at least one output timing parameter of a point-of-load (“POL”) regulator. Specifically, a power supply controller (“controller”) is adapted to transmit output-timing data to at least one POL regulator. In one embodiment of the present invention, each POL ... 10/06/05 - 20050223251 - Voltage modulation for increased reliability in an integrated circuit Techniques are disclosed for increasing reliability of an integrated circuit. In one embodiment, an integrated circuit includes core chip circuitry. The integrated circuit includes means for increasing a power supply voltage V provided to the core chip circuitry, such as by increasing the voltage V to a maximum value. The ... 10/06/05 - 20050223250 - Determining power consumption of an application In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides monitoring one or more sensor outputs of a sensor, the sensor to measure a power consumption property of the chip, and each sensor output to indicate a measurement of the power consumption property; and recording a time ... 09/22/05 - 20050210305 - Data processor for controlling voltage supplied for processing In a data processor, each logic circuit receives data provided from the transfer control unit being connected, processes the data, and outputs the data to the transfer control unit in the next stage. The data processing speed is changed in accordance with the level of a voltage supplied to the ... 09/15/05 - 20050204179 - Method for controlling power consumption associated with a processor A method for controlling power consumption associated with a processor in which, depending on the respective embodiment, a relative amount of idle time, activity time, or idle time and activity time associated with the processor are measured or detected, results of the measuring being used by the processor for controlling ... 09/08/05 - 20050198544 - Method and system for fast frequency switch for a power throttle in an integrated device The ability to change from a first bus ratio to a second bus ratio without draining the transaction queues of a processor. ... 08/25/05 - 20050188234 - Method for automatically regulating an oscillator A method for automatically regulating an oscillator is applicable to a low-speed USB interface connecting system and includes the steps of (a) providing a voltage-controlled oscillator in a USB interface for generating a controllable oscillating signal to a USB electronic device; (b) feeding back the controllable oscillating signal to a ... 08/18/05 - 20050182983 - Instantaneous frequency-based microprocessor power management A power management controller for instantaneous frequency-based microprocessor power management including first and second PLLs, select logic, and source control logic. The first PLL generates a first core source clock signal at a first frequency based on a bus clock signal. The second PLL generates a second core source clock ... 08/18/05 - 20050182982 - Information processing apparatus and method The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and method capable of avoiding communication interruptions during communication. In an apparatus having a function of dynamically changing a frequency of a CPU 51, when a source supplying a power supply voltage supplied is switched, it is determined whether or not ... 08/04/05 - 20050172159 - Process and apparatus for reducing power usage microprocessor devices operating from stored energy sources A process and apparatus for preparing said process for reducing the power consumption of microprocessor-based devices by reducing the frequency of the oscillator governing the logical operation of the microprocessor during periods of use in which system performance is not critical. In one embodiment of apparatus the microprocessor is controlled ... 06/09/05 - 20050125705 - [method for dynamically adjusting cpu requency] A method for dynamically adjusting central processing unit (CPU) frequency. Firstly, a translation table is provided between multilayer of CPU usage percentage and front-end bus operation frequency. Secondly, a current usage percentage of the CPU is obtained. Lastly, the operation frequency of the front-end bus is adjusted to a corresponding ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |