Abstract: A thermal power budget optimization method includes acquiring sensor log information from a plurality of sensors of a heating device, generating a virtual surface temperature of the heating device according to the sensor log information, setting a target surface temperature of the heating device, and dynamically adjusting a thermal power budget of the heating device according to the virtual surface temperature and the target surface temperature over time.

Abstract: A frame rate control method is provided. A primary scenario and a non-primary scenario are identified according to two or more windows displayed on a screen. Each of the primary scenario and the non-primary scenario is performed by an individual application. A frame rate of the non-primary scenario is decreased when a performance index indicates that a first condition is present. The application corresponding to the non-primary scenario is disabled when the performance index indicates that a second condition is present after decreasing the frame rate of the non-primary scenario, so as to remove the window corresponding to the non-primary scenario from the screen.

Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) configurable to perform adaptive thermal ceiling control in a per-functional-block manner, an associated main circuit, an associated electronic device and an associated thermal control method are provided. The IC may include a plurality of hardware circuits arranged to perform operations of a first functional block, and at least one thermal control circuit. At least one temperature sensor is coupled with the first functional block to detect temperature and to generate at least one temperature sensing result of the first functional block.

Abstract: A multi-processor system performs thermal-aware task scheduling and task migration. Based on temperature measurements, the system determines one or more thermal conditions of each processor. The thermal conditions include a present temperature, a historical temperature, a predicted temperature, and thermal headroom of the processor. A scheduler identifies a target processor among the processors based on, at least in part, the one or more thermal conditions of each processor, and assigns a task to be executed by the target processor. For task migration, the system detects that a source processor satisfies a task migration criterion by comparing one or more of the thermal conditions of the source processor with corresponding thresholds. The scheduler identifies a target processor based on, at least in part, one or more of the thermal conditions of each processor, and migrates a task from the source processor to the target processor for execution.