Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Reducing leakage power in low power mode
- Patent Title (中): 在低功耗模式下降低漏电功率
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Application No.: US12071388Application Date: 2008-02-20
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Publication No.: US07808273B2Publication Date: 2010-10-05
- Inventor: David Walter Flynn
- Applicant: David Walter Flynn
- Applicant Address: GB Cambridge
- Assignee: ARM Limited
- Current Assignee: ARM Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Cambridge
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
- Priority: GB0706049.4 20070328
- Main IPC: G06F7/38
- IPC: G06F7/38

Abstract:
Sequential circuitry comprising a data input, a data output, a clock signal input and a clamp signal input is disclosed. The sequential circuitry is arranged to clock a data signal received at said data input into said sequential circuitry in response to a clock signal received at said clock signal input, and to output a data signal from said sequential circuitry at said data output in response to said clock signal. The sequential circuitry is responsive to a predetermined value at said clamp signal input to switch to a low power mode and to set said data output to a forced value, while retaining said sequential state within said circuitry, said forced value being selected to reduce leakage power from combinatorial circuitry arranged to receive said output data signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090051388A1 Reducing leakage power in low power mode Public/Granted day:2009-02-26
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