Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100100756 | Power Supply Wear Leveling in a Multiple-PSU Information Handling System - In some embodiments, a method for power supply wear leveling in an information handling system including multiple power supply units (PSUs) is provided. The method includes maintaining each of multiple PSUs in one of multiple different operational states, automatically determining an accumulated on-time for each of the multiple PSUs, ranking the multiple PSUs based on the accumulated on-time determined for each PSU, and automatically changing the operational state of at least one of the PSUs based at least on the ranking of the multiple PSUs. | 04-22-2010 |
20110080151 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-PHASE VOLTAGE REGULATION - In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a multi-phase voltage regulator may comprise a plurality of phases, each phase configured to supply electrical current to one or more information handling resources electrically coupled to the voltage regulator. A controller may be electrically coupled to the plurality of phases. The controller may designate at least one of the plurality of phases as a first state phase, and designate each of the plurality of phases not designated as a first state phase as a second state phase. The controller may alternate the designation of at least two of the plurality of phases between a first state phase and a second state phase. Each first state phase may be configured to supply a first electrical current regardless of electrical current demand. Each second state phase may be configured to supply a second electrical current based on the current demand. | 04-07-2011 |
20110087910 | Auxiliary Power Shutdown - An auxiliary power control system for enabling a software command that a management controller sends to the power supply to shut down auxiliary power. Such a power control system enables an AC cycle without needing to physically remove an AC power cord and provides additional power savings when a system is not in use. In certain embodiments, the auxiliary power control system includes a paradigm of a main power state, an auxiliary power state and a sub-auxiliary state. In this system many of the power states and wake vents apply to the auxiliary power state in addition to the main power state. | 04-14-2011 |
20120005539 | Peripheral Component Interconnect Express Root Port Mirroring - An information handling system includes a peripheral component interconnect express root complex, a basic input output system, and a root complex mirroring block. The peripheral component interconnect express root complex includes a plurality of peripheral component interconnect express ports. The basic input output system is in communication with the peripheral component interconnect express root complex, and is configured to detect a peripheral component interconnect express adaptor configuration, and to set a peripheral component interconnect express mirroring setting based on the peripheral component interconnect express adaptor configuration. The root complex mirroring block is in communication with the basic input output system, and is configured to mirror data between a first peripheral component interconnect express adaptor and a second peripheral component interconnect express adaptor based on the peripheral component interconnect express mirroring setting. | 01-05-2012 |
20120275610 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCAL AND REMOTE RECORDING, MONITORING, CONTROL AND/OR ANALYSIS OF SOUNDS GENERATED IN INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM ENVIRONMENTS - Systems and methods are disclosed that may be implemented to locally and remotely record, control, monitor and analyze sounds generated in an information handling system environment, e.g., such as in a server environment. Among other things, remote monitoring and observation of sound in a data center environment may be implemented to assist administrators with data center management and forensics analysis related to physical chassis events (e.g., such as chassis access and/or chassis intrusion), as well as providing live streaming, and local technician recorded sound bite capabilities. A sound policy may also be implemented involving server sound optimizations that works in conjunction with system thermal and power algorithms. | 11-01-2012 |
20120290852 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VOLTAGE REGULATOR OPTIMIZATION THROUGH PREDICTIVE TRANSIENT WARNING - In accordance with the present disclosure, a system and method for voltage regulator optimization though predictive transient warning is described. The system may include a transient load, a controller and a voltage regulator. The controller may manage a control state of the transient load and generate a transient notification signal in response to an upcoming transient event at the transient load. The voltage regulator may provide power to the transient load and may change its mode of operation to prepare for the upcoming transient event in response to the transient notification signal. | 11-15-2012 |
20120324246 | SHARED NON-VOLATILE STORAGE FOR DIGITAL POWER CONTROL - Systems and methods may be implemented in a power device subsystem topology to provide an arbitration and communication scheme between a single consolidated non-volatile random access (NVRAM) memory device and multiple discrete digital power controller devices in a manner that provides data protection and the ability to update the full NVRAM content when needed. | 12-20-2012 |
20130173957 | Peripheral Component Interconnect Express Root Port Mirroring - An information handling system includes a peripheral component interconnect express root complex, a basic input output system, and a root complex mirroring block. The peripheral component interconnect express root complex includes a plurality of peripheral component interconnect express ports. The basic input output system is in communication with the peripheral component interconnect express root complex, and is configured to detect a peripheral component interconnect express adaptor configuration, and to set a peripheral component interconnect express mirroring setting based on the peripheral component interconnect express adaptor configuration. The root complex mirroring block is in communication with the basic input output system, and is configured to mirror data between a first peripheral component interconnect express adaptor and a second peripheral component interconnect express adaptor based on the peripheral component interconnect express mirroring setting. | 07-04-2013 |
20130179624 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING AND MANAGING NON-VOLATILE MEMORY WEAR - Systems and methods are disclosed that may be implemented to manage operation and tracking memory wear of flash devices, such as relatively large mixed use embedded NAND flash devices or other non-volatile memory (NVM) devices employed in information handling systems such as servers. The disclosed systems and methods may advantageously be implemented to perform tasks such as tracking and/or predicting actual wear for NVM devices, and optionally controlling write operations to a NVM device. The disclosed systems and methods may also be optionally implemented to generate wear alerts based on tracked or predicted wear of such NVM devices. | 07-11-2013 |
20130207630 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC MANAGEMENT OF SWITCHING FREQUENCY FOR VOLTAGE REGULATION - Systems and methods are provided that may be implemented to dynamically manage voltage regulator switching frequency. In one embodiment, the disclosed systems and methods may be implemented to dynamically find the optimal voltage regulator switching frequency based on the load current (I | 08-15-2013 |
20140208136 | Systems And Methods For Power Supply Configuration And Control - Systems and methods are disclosed that may be used for controlling information handling system power supply based on current system power policy such as current system load power need and/or based on current system load power capping information. The disclosed systems and methods may be so implemented to improve power use efficiency for information handling system applications in which a power supply unit (PSU) has a power delivery capability that is overprovisioned relative to the power-consuming system load component/s of an information handling system. | 07-24-2014 |
20140237220 | Configuring a Trusted Platform Module - A method includes storing configuration data for a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) in a pre-boot environment such as Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), reading the configuration data, and automatically configuring the TPM based upon the configuration data. The configuring includes storing values of TPM parameters in non-volatile memory of the TPM. A method includes UEFI firmware of a circuit board on an assembly line configuring a TPM. An information handling system includes UEFI firmware and a TPM. The UEFI firmware configures the TPM from a configuration file stored in memory of the UEFI firmware. | 08-21-2014 |
20140306831 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASING CURRENT MONITOR POWER TELEMETRY ACCURACY - Systems and method for increasing current monitor accuracy are disclosed. The systems and methods may include receiving a run-time load value from a current monitor, determining a component parameter value associated with the run-time load value, and communicating the component parameter value to the current monitor. | 10-16-2014 |
20150066234 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-PHASE VOLTAGE REGULATION - In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a multi-phase voltage regulator may comprise a plurality of phases, each phase configured to supply electrical current to one or more information handling resources electrically coupled to the voltage regulator. A controller may be electrically coupled to the plurality of phases. The controller may designate at least one of the plurality of phases as a first state phase, and designate each of the plurality of phases not designated as a first state phase as a second state phase. The controller may alternate the designation of at least two of the plurality of phases between a first state phase and a second state phase. Each first state phase may be configured to supply a first electrical current regardless of electrical current demand. Each second state phase may be configured to supply a second electrical current based on the current demand. | 03-05-2015 |