Optimizing the selection of clock gaters based on activity is known as power-driven clock gating.
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With more clock buffers instead of gaters in the clock distribution, the power is significantly reduced based on Table 4-4.
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In the same spirit, one can use a neural network called the gater to select which one out of several expert networks will be used to compute the output, given the current input.
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