US Patent:
20060242447, Oct 26, 2006
Inventors:
Sivakumar Radhakrishnan - Portland OR, US
Michael Wiznerowicz - Beaverton OR, US
Jed Griffin - Forest Grove OR, US
Kapilan Maheswaran - Beaverton OR, US
Scott Rushford - Hillsboro OR, US
David Hotz - Beaverton OR, US
International Classification:
G06F 1/00
Abstract:
Thermal control for a controller in a data processing environment is described. In one embodiment, the invention includes detecting a temperature of a semiconductor device at a thermal sensor on the semiconductor device, comparing the detected temperature to a threshold, and generating a high interrupt if the temperature is above the threshold and a low interrupt if the temperature is below the threshold.