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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:
Nov. 10, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 27, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
John Hillan, San Diego, CA (US);
Christopher Cooke, Solana Beach, CA (US);
Assignee:
Pacific Communication Sciences, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
327295 ; 327293 ; 327544 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for analyzing each microinstruction in a microinstruction-based electronic circuit having a plurality of registers to determine which registers in a processing cycle are not involved in the processing cycle, and preventing those registers from being clocked during such processing cycle. Hence, inactive registers during a processing cycle do not consume power at the level of active registers, thus lowering overall power usage by any system employing such gated-clock registers.