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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:
Mar. 20, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2004
Applicants:
Stephen Paul Wilcox, Cambridge, GB;
Paul Alexander Cunningham, Cambridge, GB;
Inventors:
Stephen Paul Wilcox, Cambridge, GB;
Paul Alexander Cunningham, Cambridge, GB;
Assignee:
Azuro (UK) Limited, , CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
There is disclosed a method, and corresponding apparatus, for determining a clock gating function for a set of clocked state-holding elements, comprising the steps of: for each element, determining the conditions under which the element will hold its current value based only on those inputs which are common to all elements; and combining the conditions to form a gating function.