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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2019
Applicant:
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (US);
Inventors:
Jie Gu, Evanston, IL (US);
Russell E. Joseph, Evanston, IL (US);
Assignee:
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, Evanston, IL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/38 (2018.01); G06F 1/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/3869 (2013.01); G06F 1/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and/or methods can include techniques to exploit dynamic timing slack on the chip. By using a special clock generator, the clock period can be shrunk as needed at every cycle. The clock period is determined during operation by checking 'critical path messengers' to indicate how much dynamic timing slack exists. Elastic pipeline timing can also be introduced to redistribute timing among pipeline stages to bring further benefits.