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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2016
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Steven K. Hsu, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Amit Agarwal, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Iqbal R. Rajwani, Roseville, CA (US);
Simeon Realov, Portland, OR (US);
Ram K. Krishnamurthy, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
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.