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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2007
Applicants:
Tobias Gemmeke, Boeblingen, DE;
Jens Leenstra, Bondorf, DE;
Jochen Preiss, Boebligen, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 19/00 (2006.01); H03K 17/16 (2006.01); H03K 19/003 (2006.01); G06F 1/00 (2006.01); G05F 1/10 (2006.01); G05F 3/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method to reduce power consumption within a clock gated synchronous circuit, said synchronous circuit comprising at least two successive stages, wherein each stage if activated propagates a data signal cycle by cycle to a succeeding stage, comprising the steps of: