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Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017

Filed:

Dec. 10, 2015
Applicant:

Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;

Inventors:

Kaitlyn T. Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);

Shaohua Yang, San Jose, CA (US);

Dan Liu, Shanghai, CN;

Xiao Dong Yan, Shanghai, CN;

Qi Zuo, Shanghai, CN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 (2006.01); G11C 7/12 (2006.01); G11C 8/10 (2006.01); G11C 7/14 (2006.01); G11C 5/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/12 (2013.01); G11C 5/148 (2013.01); G11C 7/14 (2013.01); G11C 8/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus for processing data includes a data processing circuit configured to process user data, wherein the data processing circuit comprises a number of sub-circuits, a number of clock gates each configured to control a clock signal to one of the sub-circuits, a gating control circuit configured to control the clock gates to apply the clock signal to each of the sub-circuits in staged fashion during a ramped power up operation, and a dummy data source configured to provide dummy data to the data processing circuit during the ramped power up operation of the data processing circuit.


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