Patent ID: 8339209

Claim:
A resonant clock distribution network, comprising: a plurality of resonant clock drivers electrically coupled with a clock distribution network, each resonant clock driver including: an inductive element electrically coupled with a clock node of the respective resonant clock driver; and a decoupling switch corresponding to the inductive element, wherein the inductive element of each of the plurality of resonant clock drivers is configured to be selectively enabled by the corresponding decoupling switch; wherein each of the plurality of resonant clock drivers is electrically coupled with each of an other plurality of clock drivers at the clock distribution network; and wherein, a natural frequency of the resonant clock distribution network is a function of a total number of inductive elements enabled in the resonant clock distribution network and the natural frequency of the resonant clock distribution network is adjusted by selecting a number of inductive elements to be enabled in the resonant clock distribution network, the selected number of inductive elements introducing capacitance or inductance via the electrical couplings of each of the plurality of resonant clock drivers with each of the other plurality of clock drivers to adjust the natural frequency of the resonant clock distribution network.