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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 05, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Chung-Wen Tang, Miao-Li, TW;
Assignee:
Integrated Technology Express Inc., Hsinchu, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/12 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/12 ;
Abstract
A state machine with a dynamic clock gating function according to the invention is disclosed. In the state machine, a gating clock control logic is used to gate a clock signal input to flip-flops which do not need a clock sample input. Accordingly, the total capacitance of capacitors which are charged/discharged following the state transition of a clock signal is greatly reduced, thereby decreasing the power consumption of the state machine.