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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2001
Sanjay Ramakrishna Pillay, Austin, TX (US);
Raghunath Krishna Rao, Austin, TX (US);
Hasibur Rahman, Austin, TX (US);
Girish Subramaniam, Austin, TX (US);
Sanjay Ramakrishna Pillay, Austin, TX (US);
Raghunath Krishna Rao, Austin, TX (US);
Hasibur Rahman, Austin, TX (US);
Girish Subramaniam, Austin, TX (US);
Cirrus Logic, INC, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
An adaptive clock throttleinterfacing a clock generatorgenerating a high speed clock and a processing engineoperating in response to a processing clock. Adaptive clock throttlegenerates a plurality of lower speed clocks from the high speed clock, estimates a duty cycle of the processing engine, and selectively gates one of the lower speed clocks to the processing engine as the processing clock to increase the duty cycle of the processing engine.