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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2002
Applicants:
Weize Xie, Cupertino, CA (US);
Norman Chang, Fremont, CA (US);
Shen Lin, Foster City, CA (US);
Osamu Samuel Nakagawa, Redwood City, CA (US);
Inventors:
Weize Xie, Cupertino, CA (US);
Norman Chang, Fremont, CA (US);
Shen Lin, Foster City, CA (US);
Osamu Samuel Nakagawa, Redwood City, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F017/50 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method to reduce leakage power consumption of electronic devices. In addition to assigning threshold voltages, sizes of the transistors within the device may be varied to provide a range of options to meet the timing requirements while minimizing the leakage power consumption.