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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2008
Filed:
May. 02, 2002
Alan Mycroft, Cambridge, GB;
Paul Webster, Cambridge, GB;
Phil Endecott, Cambridge, GB;
AT&T Corp., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of reducing the power consumption of microprocessor system is provided, wherein: said microprocessor system comprises a microprocessor () and a memory () connected by a bus (); said memory () contains a plurality of data values, each represented by a number of bits, for transmission to said microprocessor () via the bus (); and at least some of said data values contain unused bits; and wherein said method includes assigning values to said unused bits in such a way as to reduce the Hamming distance between successive data values by a greater extent than setting all of said unused bits to an arbitrary predetermined value.