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Race-to-Sleep
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Race-to-sleep (sometimes Race-to-Dark or Race-to-Idle/Halt/Zero) is a common power-saving technique used in most modern high-performance integrated circuits whereby the chip enters its highest operating frequency in order to complete the workload as fast as possible in order to go back to sleep or its lowest operating frequency.