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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2005
Applicants:
Wei Je Huang, Fremont, CA (US);
Luc R. Bisson, San Jose, CA (US);
Oren Rubinstein, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael B. Diamond, Los Gatos, CA (US);
William B. Simms, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Wei Je Huang, Fremont, CA (US);
Luc R. Bisson, San Jose, CA (US);
Oren Rubinstein, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael B. Diamond, Los Gatos, CA (US);
William B. Simms, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A bus permits the number of active serial data lanes of a data link to be re-negotiated in response to changes in bus bandwidth requirements. In one embodiment, clock buffers not required to drive active data lanes are placed in an inactive state to reduce clock power dissipation.