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公开(公告)号:US10177765B2
公开(公告)日:2019-01-08
申请号:US15244839
申请日:2016-08-23
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Steven K. Hsu , Amit Agarwal , Iqbal R. Rajwani , Simeon Realov , Ram K. Krishnamurthy
IPC: H03K19/00 , H03K19/0944 , H03K19/20
Abstract: An apparatus is provided which comprises: a clock node; a test node; an enable node; and an AND-OR-INVERT (AOI) static latch coupled to the clock node, test node, and enable node, wherein the AOI static latch has embedded NOR functionality. Another apparatus comprises: a critical timing path having a pass-gate based integrated clock gate; and a non-critical timing path electrically coupled to the critical timing path, wherein the non-critical timing path includes an AND-OR-Inverter (AOI) based integrated clock gate with embedded NOR functionality.
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公开(公告)号:US20180145663A1
公开(公告)日:2018-05-24
申请号:US15860562
申请日:2018-01-02
Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
Inventor: Amit Agarwal , Steven K. Hsu , Simeon Realov , Iqbal R. Rajwani , Ram K. Krishnamurthy
IPC: H03K3/3562 , H03K3/037
CPC classification number: H03K3/3562 , H03K3/0372 , H03K3/35625
Abstract: An apparatus is provided which comprises: a clock node; a first inverter having an input coupled to the clock node; a data node; a master latch with a shared p-type keeper coupled to an output of the first inverter, the master latch coupled to the data node; and a slave latch coupled to an output of the master latch, the slave latch having a shared p-type keeper and a shared n-type footer, wherein the shared p-type keeper and the shared n-type footer of the slave latch are coupled to the clock node and the input of the first inverter.
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公开(公告)号:US20240007087A1
公开(公告)日:2024-01-04
申请号:US17856887
申请日:2022-07-01
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Steven Hsu , Amit Agarwal , Simeon Realov , Mark Anders , Ram Krishnamurthy
Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms for an integrated clock gate (ICG) to selectively output a clock signal, and to provide frequency division functionality. In an embodiment, an ICG circuit comprises first circuitry which is coupled to receive a first clock signal, and second circuitry which is coupled to receive a control signal. The first circuitry provides a single edge triggered flip-flop functionality, and is coupled to communicate a feedback signal which the first circuitry is further coupled to receive. Based on the control signal and the feedback signal, the second circuitry performs an exclusive OR (XOR) operation to selectively enable the first circuitry to generate a second clock signal based on the first clock signal. In another embodiment, a frequency of the second clock signal is substantially equal to one half of a frequency of the first clock signal.
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公开(公告)号:US11757434B2
公开(公告)日:2023-09-12
申请号:US17711638
申请日:2022-04-01
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Amit Agarwal , Steven Hsu , Simeon Realov , Mahesh Kumashikar , Ram Krishnamurthy
IPC: H03K3/00 , H03K3/037 , G01R31/3177 , H03K3/038 , H03K19/20 , H03K3/3562
CPC classification number: H03K3/0372 , G01R31/3177 , H03K3/038 , H03K3/35625 , H03K19/20
Abstract: A fast Mux-D scan flip-flop is provided, which bypasses a scan multiplexer to a master keeper side path, removing delay overhead of a traditional Mux-D scan topology. The design is compatible with simple scan methodology of Mux-D scan, while preserving smaller area and small number of inputs/outputs. Since scan Mux is not in the forward critical path, circuit topology has similar high performance as level-sensitive scan flip-flop and can be easily converted into bare pass-gate version. The new fast Mux-D scan flip-flop combines the advantages of the conventional LSSD and Mux-D scan flip-flop, without the disadvantages of each.
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公开(公告)号:US11009549B2
公开(公告)日:2021-05-18
申请号:US16681691
申请日:2019-11-12
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Amit Agarwal , Ram Krishnamurthy , Satish Damaraju , Steven Hsu , Simeon Realov
IPC: G01R31/317 , G01R31/3177 , H03K3/037 , G01R31/3185
Abstract: An apparatus is provided which comprises: a multi-bit quad latch with an internally coupled level sensitive scan circuitry; and a combinational logic coupled to an output of the multi-bit quad latch. Another apparatus is provided which comprises: a plurality of sequential logic circuitries; and a clocking circuitry comprising inverters, wherein the clocking circuitry is shared by the plurality of sequential logic circuitries.
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公开(公告)号:US10382019B2
公开(公告)日:2019-08-13
申请号:US15992052
申请日:2018-05-29
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Amit Agarwal , Steven K. Hsu , Simeon Realov , Ram K. Krishnamurthy
IPC: H03K3/356 , H03K3/3562 , H03K19/00 , H03K19/20 , H03K3/037
Abstract: An apparatus is provided which comprises: a multiplexer which is gated by a clock; and a flip-flop coupled to the multiplexer, wherein the flip-flop has a chain of at least four inverters one of which has an input to receive the clock.
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公开(公告)号:US09985612B2
公开(公告)日:2018-05-29
申请号:US15246445
申请日:2016-08-24
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Amit Agarwal , Steven K. Hsu , Simeon Realov , Ram K. Krishnamurthy
IPC: H03K3/356 , H03K3/3562 , H03K19/00 , H03K19/20
CPC classification number: H03K3/3562 , H03K3/0375 , H03K19/0002 , H03K19/20
Abstract: An apparatus is provided which comprises: a multiplexer which is gated by a clock; and a flip-flop coupled to the multiplexer, wherein the flip-flop has a chain of at least four inverters one of which has an input to receive the clock.
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公开(公告)号:US09859876B1
公开(公告)日:2018-01-02
申请号:US15247713
申请日:2016-08-25
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Amit Agarwal , Steven K. Hsu , Simeon Realov , Iqbal R. Rajwani , Ram K. Krishnamurthy
IPC: H03K3/3562 , H03K3/037
CPC classification number: H03K3/3562 , H03K3/0372 , H03K3/35625
Abstract: An apparatus is provided which comprises: a clock node; a first inverter having an input coupled to the clock node; a data node; a master latch with a shared p-type keeper coupled to an output of the first inverter, the master latch coupled to the data node; and a slave latch coupled to an output of the master latch, the slave latch having a shared p-type keeper and a shared n-type footer, wherein the shared p-type keeper and the shared n-type footer of the slave latch are coupled to the clock node and the input of the first inverter.
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公开(公告)号:US11791819B2
公开(公告)日:2023-10-17
申请号:US16727742
申请日:2019-12-26
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Steven Hsu , Amit Agarwal , Simeon Realov , Ram Krishnamurthy
CPC classification number: H03K19/0016 , G11C7/222 , H03K3/012 , H03K3/0372 , H03K5/135 , H03K19/0013
Abstract: A parasitic-aware single-edge triggered flip-flop reduces clock power through layout optimization, enabled through process-circuit co-optimization. The static pass-gate master-slave flip-flop utilizes novel layout optimization enabling significant power reduction. The layout removes the clock poly over notches in the diffusion area. Poly lines implement clock nodes. The poly lines are aligned between n-type and p-type active regions.
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公开(公告)号:US20210281250A1
公开(公告)日:2021-09-09
申请号:US16813558
申请日:2020-03-09
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Steven Hsu , Amit Agarwal , Simeon Realov , Satish Damaraju , Ram Krishnamurthy
IPC: H03K3/037 , G06F3/06 , G01R31/3177 , G06F1/06
Abstract: A new family of shared clock single-edge triggered flip-flops that reduces a number of internal clock devices from 8 to 6 devices to reduce clock power. The static pass-gate master-slave flip-flop has no performance penalty compared to the flip-flops with 8 clock devices thus enabling significant power reduction. The flip-flop intelligently maintains the same polarity between the master and slave stages which enables the sharing of the master tristate and slave state feedback clock devices without risk of charge sharing across all combinations of clock and data toggling. Because of this, the state of the flip-flop remains undisturbed, and is robust across charge sharing noise. A multi-bit time borrowing internal stitched flip-flop is also described, which enables internal stitching of scan in a high performance time-borrowing flip-flop without incurring increase in layout area.
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