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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2010
Uri Kaluzhny, Ramat Beit Shemesh, IL;
Uri Kaluzhny, Ramat Beit Shemesh, IL;
Cisco Technology Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A device including a processor to perform an operation yielding a result, the processor including a register including bit storage elements and including a first and second section, each element being operative to store a bit value, and a power consumption mask module to determine whether the whole result can be completely written in half or less than half of the register, determine a balancing entry if the result can be completely written in half or less than half of the register, a write module to perform a single write operation to the register including writing the result and the balancing entry to the first and second section, respectively, if the result can be completely written in half or less than half of the register else writing the result of the operation across at least part of the first and second section. Related apparatus and methods are also described.