PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15992008
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["375", "359000"]

Abstract:
A synchronization solution is described, which, in one aspect, allowed finer grained segmentation of clock domains on a chip. This solution incorporates computation into the synchronization overhead time and is called Gradual Synchronization. With Gradual Synchronization as a synchronization method, the design space of a chip could easily mix both asynchronous and synchronous blocks of logic, paving the way for wider use of asynchronous logic design.

Claim (Index 11):
An integrated circuit apparatus, comprising:\n a first clock domain comprising circuits clocked by a first clock; a second clock domain comprising circuits clocked by a second clock; a first First-In-First-Out (FIFO) block with a data output, wherein the first FIFO block operates without a master clock and is connected to the first clock domain to receive data from the first clock domain; a second FIFO block with a data input, wherein the second FIFO block operates without a master clock and is connected to the second clock domain to send data to the second clock domain; and a data computation block placed between the data output of the first FIFO block and the data input of the second FIFO block.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.48
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15481407', '13306828', '12193609', '14749905', '12966888']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4847948720166747
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5778335174731186
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4940987365623192
- Mean Citation Score: 289.8562780000001
- Max Citation Score: 498.61905
- Similarity Product: 404.6494859422088

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test