ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,729, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Stimuli-independent clock gating determination" was invented by Abhinav Parashar (Delhi, India) and Harish Maruthiyodan (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a circuit design, identifying sequential elements and corresponding clocks in the circuit design, and identifying sequential elements that are not clock gated in the circuit design by running a first formal verification process on the circuit design. The method further includes modifying the circuit design to add clock gating for at least one sequential element that was...