US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Dec. 16 for "Workload-based clocking for circuitry components" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,752, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Workload-based clocking for circuitry components" was invented by Ranjith Kumar Sajja (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sreekanth Godey (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Anirudh R. Acharya (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods related to controlling clock signals for clocking shader engines modules (SEs) and non-shader-engine modules (nSEs) of a graphics processing unit (GPU) are provided. One or more dividers receive a clock signal CLK and output a clock signal CLKA to the SEs and output a clock signal CLKB to the nSEs. The fre...