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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 1994
Filed:
Dec. 17, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gary S Ditlow, Garrison, NY (US);
Steven F Oakland, Colchester, VT (US);
Dac C Pham, Round Rock, TX (US);
Kenneth J Shaw, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
307465 ; 307443 ; 307449 ; 364491 ;
Abstract
A programmable logic array (PLA) is provided with a decoder at the input. Each product term line of the PLA has an associated power switch that is controlled by an output of the decoder. Only a portion of the PLA that includes the product term lines activated for a particular operation is powered up for that operation, thus minimizing power consumption.