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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2016
Applicant:
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
NXP USA, INC., Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/356 (2006.01); H03K 3/3562 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/35625 (2013.01);
Abstract
A multi-bit flip-flop has first and second one-bit flip-flops. The multi-bit flip-flop employs inter-cell clock switch (CSW) sharing in which the first and second one-bit flip-flops share at least one clock switch. The multi-bit flip-flop may also employ intra-cell CSW sharing in which at least one of the first and second one-bit flip-flops shares at least one clock switch. The inter-cell CSW sharing enables implementation of multi-bit flip-flops with fewer clock switches and possibly fewer data devices, while reducing power consumption, including state retention power gating power reduction.