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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Anthony G. Aipperspach, Rochester, MN (US);
Morgan D. Davis, Rochester, MN (US);
Matthew R. Ellavsky, Rochester, MN (US);
Kent H. Haselhorst, Byron, MN (US);
Kerry C. Imming, Rochester, MN (US);
Mark G. Veldhuizen, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and elastic buffer circuit are provided for implementing low power, single master-slave elastic buffers in a network chip design to provide a continuous stream of data to multiple sinks from multiple sources, and a design structure on which the subject circuit resides. An elastic buffer only uses a single master-slave register. The circuit includes a finite state machine, and a latch control block (LCB) to implement the single master-slave elastic buffer removing all ½ cycle paths between buffer locations enabling usage of the single master-slave register.