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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2008
Christopher Michael Abernathy, Austin, TX (US);
Gilles Gervais, Austin, TX (US);
Rolf Hilgendorf, Boeblingen, DE;
Christopher Michael Abernathy, Austin, TX (US);
Gilles Gervais, Austin, TX (US);
Rolf Hilgendorf, Boeblingen, DE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Power is conserved by dynamically applying clocks to execution units in a pipeline of a microprocessor. A clock to an execution unit is applied only when an instruction to the execution unit is valid. At other times when the execution unit needs not to be operational, the clock is not applied to the execution unit. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, a dynamiclock-control unit is used to provide a control signal to a local clock buffer providing a local clock to an execution unit.
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