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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. 22, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Cyrus C. Cheung, Hercules, CA (US);
Keith D. Au, Woodland Hills, CA (US);
Assignee:
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 1/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 1/900 ;
Abstract
A clock gating cell and a method of manufacturing the same. In one embodiment, the clock gating cell includes: (1) gate signal and clock signal inputs configured to receive gate enable and clock input signals, respectively, and (2) a gated clock signal output configured to generate a gated clock signal that is a function of states of the gate enable and clock signals, the clock gating cell treated as an atomic entity in a cell library.