Apparatuses and methods to facilitate a reduction in area and power consumption of circuits and systems via clock-gating and an identification of qualifiers

Abstract

Aspects of the subject disclosure address the traditional trade-off between performance and area, in relation to circuit and system design, together with power as an additional factor of consideration. Circuits and systems of this disclosure may realize a datapath of data in respect of memory state elements (e.g., registers, flops, etc.) that is dependent on multiple qualifiers. Aspects of this disclosure enhance (e.g., optimize) area and reduce leakage power associated with circuits and systems. Furthermore, aspects of this disclosure enable and enhance an insertion of clock-gating circuits or mechanisms to reduce dynamic-power consumption depending on states of the qualifiers.