US Patent Issued to ATI TECHNOLOGIES on April 7 for "Handshaking mechanism for clock network control" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,395, issued on April 7, was assigned to ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Handshaking mechanism for clock network control" was invented by Erwin Pang (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for clock distribution network control includes determining, at a first clock node of a plurality of clock nodes within a clock distribution network, a downstream clock request status. A clock request signal is transmitted by the first clock node to an upstream parent node based on the downstream clock request status. A clock buffer of the first clock node is toggled based at least in part on the clock request signal to the...