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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2011
Daniel W. Bailey, Austin, TX (US);
Aaron S. Rogers, Pflugerville, TX (US);
James J. Montanaro, Austin, TX (US);
Bradley G. Burgess, Austin, TX (US);
Peter J. Hannan, Austin, TX (US);
Daniel W. Bailey, Austin, TX (US);
Aaron S. Rogers, Pflugerville, TX (US);
James J. Montanaro, Austin, TX (US);
Bradley G. Burgess, Austin, TX (US);
Peter J. Hannan, Austin, TX (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Leakage current is reduced in a plurality of gates coupled between source storage elements and destination storage elements by waking the plurality of gates to allow current flow in response to assertion of any source clock enable signals that enable clocking of the source storage elements. The gates are slept to reduce leakage current in the plurality of gates, in response to assertion of a destination clock enable signal and all of the one or more source clock enable signals being deasserted, the destination clock enable signal enabling clocking of the destination storage elements.