摘要:
A voltage level converter includes a static voltage level converter and a split-level output circuit coupled to the static voltage-level converter. In another embodiment, the voltage-level converter includes a static voltage level-converter, a first transistor, and a second transistor. The static voltage-level converter includes an input node, a first pull-up node, a second pull-up node, an inverter output node, and an output node. The first transistor is coupled to the input node and the first pull-up node. The second transistor is coupled to the second pull-up node and the inverter output node.
摘要:
A sense amplifier transition encodes an output signal onto a bus such that the bus signal only transitions when a sensed bit line has a state different from the state of a previously sensed bit line. The sense amplifier includes a storage element that changes state when the bus signal is asserted. The output of the sense amplifier is conditionally inverted based on the state of the storage element.
摘要:
An embodiment of a full-swing, source-follower leakage tolerant dynamic logic gate comprises an nMOSFET logic to conditionally charge a node during an evaluation phase, and to charge the node to a relatively small voltage during the pre-charge phase so that the nMOSFET logic becomes reverse-biased.
摘要:
A clock receiver circuit converts low amplitude, differential clock signal components received from a differential clock distribution medium into a full swing digital clock. The clock receiver circuit can be used as part of, for example, an on-die salphasic clock distribution system within a microelectronic device.
摘要:
In some embodiments, the invention includes a domino logic gate circuit having a domino state and a single ended domino compatible dual function generator. The domino state receives a domino stage input signal and provides a single ended intermediate signal as a function of the domino stage input signal, the intermediate signal having a state. The generator receives the intermediate signal and provides an out signal and an out* signal each having a state, wherein the out and out* signals have the same state during a precharge phase and have complementary states during an evaluate phase as a function of the state of the intermediate signal. In other embodiments, the invention includes domino logic gate circuit having a combined domino stage and dual function generator. The domino stage is to receive a domino stage input signal. The dual function generator is a single ended domino compatible dual function generator to provide an out signal and an out* signal that each have a state and during a precharge phase, the out signal and out* signal each have the same state, and during an evaluate phase the out and out* states are complementary states as a function of the domino stage input signal without a logic X circuit and a logic X* circuit.
摘要:
Techniques and mechanisms for performing circuit-switched routing and packet-switched routing for network communication. In an embodiment, a router evaluates control information of a packet received by the router, the evaluation to detect whether the packet includes data for a sideband communication. Based on the evaluation, the router performs a selection from among a plurality of modes of the router, the plurality of modes including a first mode to route the packet for packet-switched communication of sideband data in a network. The plurality of modes also includes a second mode to configure a circuit-switched channel according to the packet. In another embodiment, the router determines a direction for routing a packet in a hierarchical network, wherein the determining of the direction is based on a level of the router in a hierarchy of the hierarchical network.
摘要:
An adder circuit includes a number of selectors and an adder. The selectors feed the adder with multiple input data bits. Each of the selectors includes a combination of a multiplexing network and a sense amplifier to select from a number of input values to generate the multiple input data bits. The combination of the multiplexing network and the sense amplifier acts as the state-holding element at the input of the adder, avoiding the overheads of an explicit latch stage.
摘要:
A high performance interconnect that utilizes dynamic driver technology is capable of reduced power operation during periods of low data switching activity. Circuitry is provided that limits the performance of an evaluation operation in the dynamic driver circuitry to clock cycles during which a present input bit of the interconnect differs from a previous input bit. Thus, the evaluation operation and subsequent precharge of the driver output is performed sparingly during periods of low data switching activity. An output circuit is also provided for decoding the data stream flowing through the interconnect at the receiver end thereof. Using the principles of the present invention, it is possible to achieve the performance advantages of dynamic drivers with the switching activity of interconnects that use static CMOS technology.
摘要:
In an embodiment, a router includes multiple input ports and output ports, where the router is of a source-synchronous hybrid network on chip (NoC) to enable communication between routers of the NoC based on transitions in control flow signals communicated between the routers. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
摘要:
In accordance with some embodiments, the complexity of motion estimation algorithms that use Haar, SAD and Hadamard transforms may be reduced. In some embodiments, the number of summations may be reduced compared to existing techniques and some of the existing summations may be replaced with compare operations. In some embodiments, additions are replaced with compares in order to balance delay and area or energy or power considerations.