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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2005
JO C. Ebergen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert J. Drost, Mountain View, CA (US);
William S. Coates, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Ian W. Jones, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jo C. Ebergen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert J. Drost, Mountain View, CA (US);
William S. Coates, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Ian W. Jones, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that limits a maximum repetition rate of an asynchronous circuit. The system operates by receiving a clock signal at a rate-controlling circuit for the asynchronous circuit from a source external to the asynchronous circuit. The system then uses the clock signal to limit the maximum repetition rate of the asynchronous circuit so that only a predetermined number of asynchronous transactions may take place during each cycle of the clock signal.