US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Dec. 2 for "Multi-phase clock gating with phase selection" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,447, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multi-phase clock gating with phase selection" was invented by Ramon Mangaser (Arlington, Mass.) and Pradeep Jayaraman (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-phase clock gating circuit receives a plurality of respective phased clock signals, and a one-hot stop phase select signal indicating a first selected phase for which gating of the phased clock signals is to be started. Responsive to a clock control signal indicating the phased clock signals are to be gated, the clock signals are gated beginning at the first selected phase...