Patent ID: 8587356

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a control signal associated with a power gating operation mode of an electronic circuit; and maintaining data representing a state of a logic stage of said electronic circuit based upon said power gating operation mode, wherein said maintaining comprises: storing data of a state of a first logic stage of said electronic circuit within a first storage element in a first power gating operation mode; recovering data of a state of a second logic stage of said electronic circuit utilizing said data of said state of said first logic stage of said electronic circuit within said first storage element in a second power gating operation mode; and recovering data of a state of a third logic stage of said electronic circuit utilizing said data of said state of said second logic stage within a second storage element in said second power gating operation mode, said recovering data of said state of said second logic stage and recovering said data of said state of said third logic stage are performed sequentially.