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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2015
Applicant:
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Xi Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Hwong-Kwo Lin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ge Yang, Dublin, CA (US);
Lingfei Deng, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/00 (2006.01); H03K 3/012 (2006.01); H03K 3/037 (2006.01); H03K 19/21 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/012 (2013.01); H03K 3/0372 (2013.01); H03K 19/21 (2013.01);
Abstract
Low clocking power flip-flop. In accordance with a first embodiment of the present invention, a flip-flop electronic circuit includes a master latch coupled to a slave latch in a flip-flop configuration. The flip-flop electronic circuit also includes a clock control circuit for comparing an input to the master latch with an output of the slave latch, and responsive to the comparing, blocking a clock signal to the master latch and the slave latch when the flip-flop electronic circuit is in a quiescent condition.