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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2002
Applicants:
David S. Oliver, Longmont, CO (US);
Willard S. Briggs, Boulder, CO (US);
Inventors:
David S. Oliver, Longmont, CO (US);
Willard S. Briggs, Boulder, CO (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/38 (2006.01); G06F 9/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A variable speed floating point unit comprising: 1) an execution pipeline comprising a plurality of execution stages capable of executing floating point operations in a series of sequential steps; and 2) a clock controller capable of receiving an input clock signal and generating a variable speed output clock signal capable of clocking the execution pipeline. The clock controller adjusts a speed of the variable speed output clock signal according to a level of queued opcodes waiting to be executed in the execution pipeline.