Method of stalling one or more stages in an interlocked synchronous pipeline
US7475227B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 14, 2006 |
| Grant date | Jan 6, 2009 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 14, 2026 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02D10/00
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method of operating an integrated circuit including a pipeline and a method of stalling stages in the pipeline. Each stage of the pipeline is triggered by one or more triggering events and are individually, and selectively, stalled by a stall signal. For each stage a stall signal, delayed with respect to the stall signal of a downstream stage, is generated and used to select whether the pipeline stage in question is triggered. A data valid signal propagating with valid data adds further selection, such that only stages with valid data are stalled.
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