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gater en · NOUN

Etymology

From gate + -er.

Meanings

1. A mechanism that saves power in a circuit by removing the clock signal while the circuit is not in use.
   • With more clock buffers instead of gaters in the clock distribution, the power is significantly reduced based on Table 4-4. Patrick Lee, Introduction to Low-Power Design in VLSIs (page 125)
   • Optimizing the selection of clock gaters based on activity is known as power-driven clock gating. 2012, Rakesh Chadha, J. Bhasker, An ASIC Low Power Primer: Analysis, Techniques and Specification, page 118:
2. A component of a neural network that determines the probability that each member of a set of predictors will be selected.
   • 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. 2015, Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville, chapter 12, in Deep Learning, page 438:

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