Lewis Timothy Andrew

Bio: Lewis Timothy Andrew is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Flash memory & Interrupt. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 1 citations.

System and method for platform sleep state enhancements using non-volatile dual in-line memory modules

Abstract: A system and method for performing sleep state enhancements in a computing device using firmware and NVDIMMs that include DRAM and flash memory is discussed. The flash-backed DRAM covers all of platform memory. All writes to DRAM during system operation are propagated to the flash. Sleep state requests trigger a System Management Interrupt and a firmware a SMI handler handles the sleep state request so as to enable power savings during the sleep state and facilitate faster resume times when exiting the sleep state.

Low latency boot from zero-power state

Abstract: An embodiment of a semiconductor package apparatus may include technology to determine if a wake event corresponds to a zero-power state of a computer operating system, determine if a run-time state is valid to wake the operating system from the zero-power state, and wake the operating system from the zero-power state to the run-time state if the run-time state is determined to be valid. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.