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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2012
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Sumie Aoki, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/04 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01); G06F 1/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/04 (2013.01); G06F 1/3237 (2013.01); G06F 1/26 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1221 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present technology provides an excellent advantageous effect in terms of reducing power consumption of a bus system adapted to treat a transaction as a unit. Disclosed herein is a clock gating circuit including: a clock enable signal generation portion adapted to count the number of outstanding transactions in each of a plurality of regions into which a bus system is divided so as to generate a clock enable signal for each of the plurality of regions; and a masked clock generation portion adapted to mask a clock by using the clock enable signal for each of the plurality of regions so as to generate a masked clock.