Newness and distinctiveness is claimed in the features of ornamentation as shown inside the broken line circle in the accompanying representation.

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface

Icon for a display screen

Display screen with animated graphical user interface

Remote control of energy consumption is realized using a readily installable, flexible approach. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a remote source communicates with a wireless controller for executing energy usage control. The remote source sends signals to the wireless controller via a gateway located near or, in one implementation, forming part of the wireless controller. In response to the signals, the wireless controller sets control settings for operating one or more of a variety of equipment types, such as a furnace, air conditioner, water heater or heat pump. With this approach, wired connections from the gateway to energy-consuming equipment do not necessarily need to be made in order to effect remote energy-consumption control. For instance, when used in connection with a controller wired to the energy-consuming equipment, the gateway need only communicate wirelessly with the controller and does not necessarily need to be coupled to the energy-consuming equipment. In addition, access to the energy-consuming equipment for establishing remote energy control is not necessary; rather, the remote energy control can be effected by accessing user-friendly locations, such as those where thermostats and other controllers are typically located.

Wireless controller with gateway

A wireless communicator including a housing, wireless communication functionality located within the housing, native user interface functionality cooperating with the wireless communication functionality and including user interface surfaces located on at least one outer facing surface of the housing, and pouching responsive electrical interconnection functionality responsive to pouching orientation of the housing in a pouch of an enhanced function device for automatically causing the wireless communication functionality to adapt to interoperation with parenting user interface functionality forming part of the enhanced function device at least partially instead of with the native user interface functionality. A method is also described and claimed.

Modular wireless communicator

A fully on-die, digitally controlled, 500MHz switching, 250mA rated output buck Voltage Regulator (VR) implemented in 22nm Tri-Gate CMOS is presented. The silicon measured a peak efficiency of 68% and consumed an area of 0.6mm
 2
 (without output decoupling) with a power density of about 410 mW/mm
 2
. The paper also demonstrates a controller bandwidth of 43MHz; the highest reported to date for any digital controller, resulting in output voltage ramp rates as high as 10V/μsec.

A 500 MHz, 68% efficient, fully on-die digitally controlled buck Voltage Regulator on 22nm Tri-Gate CMOS

A processor-based system, including systems without keyboards, may receive user inputs prior to booting. This may done using the graphics controller to generate a window which allows the user to input information. The system firmware may then compare any user inputs, such as passwords, and may determine whether or not to actually initiate system booting.

Providing a User Input Interface Prior to Initiation of an Operating System

Embodiments disclosed herein include a power monitor and controller which are used to control the operation of a voltage regulator depending on an operating mode or state of a load device, such as a hard disk drive. By controlling the voltage regulator in this manner, voltage regulator efficiency may be improved for any load condition, thus reducing power losses in the system.

Load adaptive power delivery

The problem of increased cost and space to deliver power through multiple voltage rails in a computing platform is outlined. The trend towards on-die voltage regulator integration that results in changes to platform voltage rail requirements and the opportunity to take advantage of this feature in the development of loosely regulated outputs will be explained. A novel Triple Output Fixed Ratio Converter (TOFRC) topology will be proposed as a possible solution. The steady state operation of the converter, its transient behavior will be explored. Results from an experimental prototype will be presented to demonstrate the feasibility of the converter.

Novel switched capacitor based Triple Output Fixed Ratio Converter (TOFRC)

Monolithic integration of Voltage Regulators (VR) is challenging given the inherent lack of scalability of inductor. Circuit techniques to reduce inductor size are attractive to increase power density and scalability. This paper presents a 70∼72% efficient, 500MHz digitally controlled 3-level Buck VR with a fully on-die spiral inductor implemented on 22nm Tri-Gate CMOS with MIM capacitors. The advantages of the 3-level converter for wide range Dynamic Voltage & Frequency Scaling (DVFS) over traditional solutions like linear regulators & Buck VRs are demonstrated.

A 0.4V∼1V 0.2A/mm 2 70% efficient 500MHz fully integrated digitally controlled 3-level buck voltage regulator with on-die high density MIM capacitor in 22nm tri-gate CMOS

Wayne L. Proefrock

Papers

A 500 MHz, 68% efficient, fully on-die digitally controlled buck Voltage Regulator on 22nm Tri-Gate CMOS

Providing a User Input Interface Prior to Initiation of an Operating System

Load adaptive power delivery

Novel switched capacitor based Triple Output Fixed Ratio Converter (TOFRC)

A 0.4V∼1V 0.2A/mm 2 70% efficient 500MHz fully integrated digitally controlled 3-level buck voltage regulator with on-die high density MIM capacitor in 22nm tri-gate CMOS