Patents

Power gating functional units of a processor [abstract]
Jaewoong Chung, Hanjun Kim, and Youfeng Wu
US Patent Number 8,954,775, February 2015.

In one embodiment, the present invention includes an apparatus having a core including functional units each to execute instructions of a target instruction set architecture (ISA) and a power controller to control a power mode of a first functional unit responsive to a power identification field of a power instruction of a power region of a code block to be executed on the core. Other embodiments are described and claimed.