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Since the clock power consumption in today’s processors is considerably large, reducing the clock power consumption contributes to the reduction of the total power consumption in the processors. Recen...tly, a gated flip-flop is proposed for reducing the clock power consumption of flip-flop circuits. The gated flip-flop employs a clock-gating circuit which cuts off an internal clock signal if the data stored in the flip-flop does not need to be updated. This reduces the clocking power consumption. However, the power dissipated in the clock-gating circuit is still large. For reducing the power dissipated in the clock-gating circuit, this paper proposes a technique for unifying the multiple clock-gating circuits, which reduces the overhead of the clock-gating circuit. Experimental results obtained using an RTL model of a commercial embedded processor demonstrate that our technique reduces the power consumption of register circuits in the processor by 44% on an average and 53% at the best case compared to the register circuits composed of the conventional gated flip-flops.show more
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