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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2010
Applicants:
Marios C. Papaefthymiou, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Alexander Ishii, Princeton, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Marios C. Papaefthymiou, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Alexander Ishii, Princeton, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Cyclos Semiconductor, Inc., Berkeley, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03B 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A resonant clock distribution network architecture is proposed that is capable of single-step operation through the use of selective control in the resonant clock drivers and the deployment of flip-flops that require the clock to remain stable for a sufficiently long time between any two consecutive state updates. Such a network is generally applicable to semiconductor devices with various clock frequencies, and high-performance and low-power clocking requirements such as microprocessors, ASICs, and SOCs.