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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2015
Applicant:
Sandisk Technologies Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Inventor:
Reed P. Tidwell, Centerville, UT (US);
Assignee:
SanDisk Technologies LLC, Plano, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/32 (2006.01); G06F 1/26 (2006.01); G06F 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/08 (2006.01); G06F 9/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/324 (2013.01); G06F 1/08 (2013.01); G06F 9/38 (2013.01); G06F 1/26 (2013.01);
Abstract
A pipeline system may adjust clock rates of variable-rate clock signals sent to different processing circuit blocks in a pipeline based on their respective, individual input and output buffer fill levels and processor busy statuses. Variable-rate clock generation circuitry may generate the variable-rate clock signals based on a common clock signal. Additionally, the variable-rate clock generation circuitry may set or adjust the rates of variable-rate clock signals linearly in evenly-spaced increments and decrements.