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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2019
Groq, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Sushma Honnavara-Prasad, San Jose, CA (US);
Groq, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure pertain to reducing power consumption in a processor circuit. In one embodiment, a processor circuit comprises a plurality of data storage modules. The plurality of data storage modules each include one or more first multibit flip flop circuits having a first power consumption per bit and one or more second flip flop circuits having a second power consumption per bit. The first multibit flip flop circuits may have more bits than the second flip flop circuits. Additionally, the first power consumption per bit may be less than the second power consumption per bit such that power consumption is reduced when the first multibit flip flop circuits are used to store bits that change with a higher frequency than bits stored in the second flip flop circuits.