US Patent Issued to SiFive on July 1 for "Systems and methods for clock gating" (Massachusetts, Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,187, issued on July 1, was assigned to SiFive Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for clock gating" was invented by Edward McLellan (Holliston, Mass.), Arjun Pal Chowdury (Austin, Texas) and Paul Walmsley (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are systems and methods for clock gating components on a system-on-chip. A processing system includes one or more cores, each core including a clock gating enable bit register which is set by software when an expected idle period of the core meets or exceeds a clock gating threshold, and a power management unit connected to the one or more cores. The power manag...