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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2006
Filed:
May. 12, 2003
Applicants:
Michael Billeci, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Timothy G. Mcnamara, Fishkill, NY (US);
Ching-lung L. Tong, Highland Mills, NY (US);
David Webber, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Inventors:
Michael Billeci, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Timothy G. McNamara, Fishkill, NY (US);
Ching-Lung L. Tong, Highland Mills, NY (US);
David Webber, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/04 (2006.01); G06F 1/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for operating a clock in a processor having asymmetrically mirrored base-mirror units is disclosed. The method includes initializing a base-unit and a mirror-unit of the processor to the same state, and starting the mirror-unit-clock one clock cycle later than the base-unit-clock.