Energy (or, more specifically, energy consumption) is at the forefront in everyone's mind these days. Whether we are sensitive to the cost of fuel, to the electricity bill or to a dead cell phone ...

All power optimization tools can perform combinational optimization, where there is an opportunity to gate a register clock input, based on the combinational logic that is feeding the register’s data ...

Clock gating is one of the most frequently used techniques in RTL to reduce dynamic power consumption without affecting the functionality of the design. One method involves inserting gating conditions ...