18339478. THROTTLE CONTROL CIRCUITS FOR THROTTLING ACTIVITY IN PROCESSING SEGMENT CIRCUITS IN AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (IC) CHIP AND RELATED METHODS (QUALCOMM Incorporated)
THROTTLE CONTROL CIRCUITS FOR THROTTLING ACTIVITY IN PROCESSING SEGMENT CIRCUITS IN AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (IC) CHIP AND RELATED METHODS
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Inventor(s)
Sagar Koorapati of Austin TX (US)
Alon Naveh of Corte Madera CA (US)
THROTTLE CONTROL CIRCUITS FOR THROTTLING ACTIVITY IN PROCESSING SEGMENT CIRCUITS IN AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (IC) CHIP AND RELATED METHODS
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18339478 titled 'THROTTLE CONTROL CIRCUITS FOR THROTTLING ACTIVITY IN PROCESSING SEGMENT CIRCUITS IN AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (IC) CHIP AND RELATED METHODS
Original Abstract Submitted
A throttle control circuit receives a throttle control signal for controlling power consumption in a plurality of processing segment circuits. The throttle control signal has a throttle control value based on throttle requests from monitoring circuits that have detected power-related events or conditions and correspond to a requested change in activity in the plurality of processing segment circuits. The throttle control circuit receives the throttle control signal in a plurality of throttle administration circuits that each generates a throttle select signal to select an activity control signal for a corresponding processing segment circuit. In each of a first number (N) of consecutive cycles of a clock signal, the activity control signal disables state changes in the corresponding processing segment circuit for a second number (M) of cycles among the first number (N) of consecutive cycles to reduce power consumption in the processing segment circuits.
