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Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 22, 2011
Applicant:

Ivan E. Sutherland, Portland, OR (US);

Inventor:

Ivan E. Sutherland, Portland, OR (US);

Assignee:

ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Redwood Shores, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01); H03K 19/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/12 (2006.01); G06F 5/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/12 (2013.01); G06F 3/00 (2013.01); G06F 5/06 (2013.01); G06F 13/42 (2013.01); H03K 19/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

An integrated circuit includes a first pipeline with multiple stages of asynchronous circuits. Note that a stage in the first pipeline communicates with a stage in a corresponding second pipeline with multiple stages of asynchronous circuits on another integrated circuit via connectors. Furthermore, a first state wire preceding the stage in the first pipeline provides advanced notice to a first state wire preceding the stage in the second pipeline of subsequent communication between the stage in the first pipeline and the stage in the second pipeline so that the stage in the second pipeline has time to amplify a signal received from the stage in the first pipeline, thereby facilitating approximately synchronous operation of the stages in the first and second pipelines.


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