A microelectronic device according to the present invention is made up of two or more functional units, which are all disposed on a single chip, or die. The present invention works on the strategy that all of the functional units on the die are not, and do not need to be operational at a given time in...http://www.google.fr/patents/US5655124?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US5655124 - Selective power-down for high performance CPU/system
Selective power-down for high performance CPU/system
