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US08225245B2 Method of implementing physically realizable and power-efficient clock gating in microprocessor circuits
有权
在微处理器电路中实现物理上可实现和功率有效的时钟门控的方法
- Patent Title: Method of implementing physically realizable and power-efficient clock gating in microprocessor circuits
- Patent Title (中): 在微处理器电路中实现物理上可实现和功率有效的时钟门控的方法
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Application No.: US12609370Application Date: 2009-10-30
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Publication No.: US08225245B2Publication Date: 2012-07-17
- Inventor: Aravind Oommen , Hemanga Das , Krishnan Sundaresan
- Applicant: Aravind Oommen , Hemanga Das , Krishnan Sundaresan
- Applicant Address: US CA Redwood City
- Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Redwood City
- Agency: Osha Liang LLP
- Main IPC: G06F9/45
- IPC: G06F9/45

Abstract:
A method and system of merging gated-clock domains in a semiconductor design includes producing, for each subset of clock gating functions in an initial set of clock gating functions, a set of quantified functions produced by existentially quantifying each clock gating function in the subset over a set of variables that are not part of the support sets of the other clock gating functions of the subset. If the set of quantified functions are equal, selecting one as a super clock gating function and adding it to the set of super clock gating functions. The set of super clock gating functions are sorted according to a criterion and the best is selected and added to the set of final clock gating functions. The remaining super clock gating functions are modified to prevent flip-flops gated by the selected super clock gating function from being gated by remaining super clock gating functions.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110107289A1 METHOD OF IMPLEMENTING PHYSICALLY REALIZABLE AND POWER-EFFICIENT CLOCK GATING IN MICROPROCESSOR CIRCUITS Public/Granted day:2011-05-05
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