On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 12:13:40PM +0200, Thomas Sailer wrote:
> The point is that frequency scaling is normally used with voltage
> scaling. And lowering the voltage decreases the maximum frequency
> roughly linearly, while the dynamic power consumption decreases
> quadratically with voltage.
Yes, but there are some systems out there where it is advantageous to
use frequency scaling on hardware that supports it, without supporting
voltage scaling.
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