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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2016
Applicant:
Netspeed Systems, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Sailesh Kumar, San Jose, CA (US);
Sandip Das, San Jose, CA (US);
Poonacha Kongetira, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
NetSpeed Systems, San Jose, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01); G06N 5/04 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01); G06N 99/00 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 5/045 (2013.01); G06F 1/32 (2013.01); G06N 99/005 (2013.01);
Abstract
An aspect of the present disclosure provides a hardware element in a Network on Chip (NoC), wherein the hardware element includes a clock gating circuit configures one or more neighboring hardware elements to activate before receiving new incoming data and to sleep after a defined number of cycles, wherein the defined number of cycles can be counted from a cycle having non-receipt of incoming data and/or having a clearance of all data within an input queue of a source hardware element.