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US 2011/0298495 A1Published application
One phase logic
AssigneeAchronix Semiconductor Corporation
InventorsRaymond Nijssen, Kamal Chaudhary, Rajit Manohar, Christopher LaFrieda, Clinton W. Kelly, Virantha Ekanayake
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Abstract
Circuits comprising asynchronous linear pipelines and one-phase pipelines, and methods of forming asynchronous linear pipeline circuits and converting them to one-phase pipeline circuits are provided. Additional circuits, systems and methods are disclosed.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- identifying at least one idle portion of an asynchronous linear pipeline circuit that includes a portion of multi-phase logic and acknowledge circuits;
- and
- converting the identified at least one idle portion of the asynchronous linear pipeline circuit to a one-phase pipeline circuit.
A circuit comprising:
- a plurality of one-phase pipeline circuits that operate to disregard acknowledge signals in idle portions of a plurality of asynchronous linear pipeline circuits;
- and
- a plurality of connection blocks to provide a set of connections between a selected number of the plurality of asynchronous linear pipeline circuits and the plurality of one-phase pipeline circuits.
A system comprising:
- memory;
- one or more processors coupled to the memory, the one or more processors to implement one or more modules including;
- an identification module to identify at least one idle portion of an asynchronous linear pipeline circuit that includes a portion of multi-phase logic and acknowledge circuits;
- and
- a conversion module to convert the identified at least one idle portion of the asynchronous linear pipeline circuit to a one-phase pipeline circuit.
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A machine-readable storage medium containing instructions that when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform a method comprising:
- identifying at least one idle portion of an asynchronous linear pipeline circuit that includes a portion of multi-phase logic and acknowledge circuits;
- and
- converting the identified at least one idle portion of the asynchronous linear pipeline circuit to a one-phase pipeline circuit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.