Abstract:
A wireless station is disclosed that may quickly enter and/or exit a sleep state and that may reduce power consumption associated with waking up from the sleep state to perform selected low power operations by performing such operations using a set of first instructions stored within an internal memory of the station's processor. If more complex operations such as processing downlink data received from an access point are subsequently desired, then the processor may jump to execution of a set of second instructions stored in an external memory that is coupled to the processor.
Abstract:
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus and techniques for configuring memory in an effort to reduce power consumption. For example, certain aspects of the present disclosure may provide an apparatus having a processing system configured to determine an operating mode of an application executing on the processing system. The operating mode may be one of a plurality of operating modes of the application, and each operating mode of the plurality of operating modes may correspond to a different configuration of memory. In certain aspects, the configurations of memory may correspond to different portions of memory that are active or inactive. In certain aspects, the apparatus may also include a memory control module configured to configure the memory based on the determined operating mode of the application.