Patent ID: 8924760

Claim:
A method of managing power for a semiconductor system using a scheduler, the method comprising: accessing workload data of said scheduler, said workload data describing a plurality of tasks to be executed on a plurality of processing blocks of said semiconductor system; determining a power management policy based on analyzing said workload data, wherein said analyzing said workload data includes analyzing said data packet content types of said workload data to distinguish said data packet content types based on severity of packet loss; adjusting a power configuration of said semiconductor system according to said power management policy, wherein said adjusting said power configuration comprises reducing an operating frequency of said one processing block of said plurality of processing blocks in response to said analyzing of said data packet content types of said workload data to distinguish said data packet content types based on severity of packet loss; and operating said one processing block of said plurality of processing blocks at said reduced operating frequency in response to said analyzing of said data packet content types of said workload data.