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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:
Apr. 02, 1996
Filed:
Jan. 21, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Larry D Webster, Dublin, CA (US);
Ehud Pardo, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Electronics Products Company, Dublin, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395750 ;
Abstract
A power management apparatus that controls the use of power within an integrated circuit. A first embodiment gates integrated circuit power on or off concurrently with switches inserted between the co-resident functional circuit I/O nets and the integrated circuit I/O pads. A second embodiment instantiates the power management apparatus on an integrated circuit by itself for connection to external integrated circuits. Buffering or sequencing is provided for both embodiments.