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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2012
Michael R. Foxcroft, Toronto, CA;
Shirley Pui Shan Lam, Richmond Hill, CA;
George A. W. Guthrie, Mississauga, CA;
Alexander Shternshain, San Jose, CA (US);
Mihir Doctor, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Krishna Sitaraman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jeff Herman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael R. Foxcroft, Toronto, CA;
Shirley Pui Shan Lam, Richmond Hill, CA;
George A. W. Guthrie, Mississauga, CA;
Alexander Shternshain, San Jose, CA (US);
Mihir Doctor, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Krishna Sitaraman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jeff Herman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
ATI Technologies ULC, E. Markham, Ontario, CA;
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A device may generate a clock signal using spread-spectrum clocking. The spread-spectrum clocking may modulate a frequency of the clock signal to produce a plurality of frequencies for the clock signal during a modulation cycle. The device may receive an instruction to disable the spread-spectrum clocking, and may disable the spread spectrum clocking at the end of the modulation cycle.