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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2024

Filed:

Sep. 21, 2021
Applicant:

Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventor:

Benjamin Andrew Keller, Oakland, CA (US);

Assignee:

NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/38 (2018.01); G06F 5/16 (2006.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01); G11C 7/10 (2006.01); H03K 19/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/3869 (2013.01); G06F 5/16 (2013.01); G06F 13/1642 (2013.01); G11C 7/1063 (2013.01); H03K 19/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a data pipeline, which includes a first mousetrap element and a second mousetrap element in a first pipeline stage. Each mousetrap element includes a request latch that, when enabled, allows a request signal to pass from the first pipeline stage to a second pipeline stage following the first pipeline stage in the data pipeline. Each mousetrap element also includes a data latch that, when enabled, allows a data element to pass from the first pipeline stage to the second pipeline stage. Each mousetrap element further includes a latch controller that enables and disables the request and data latches based on a phase signal that alternates between a first value that configures the first mousetrap element to transmit data to the second pipeline stage and a second value that configures the second mousetrap element to transmit data to the second pipeline stage.


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