A mechanism that saves power in a circuit by removing the clock signal while the circuit is not in use.
“Optimizing the selection of clock gaters based on activity is known as power-driven clock gating.”
“With more clock buffers instead of gaters in the clock distribution, the power is significantly reduced based on Table 4-4.”
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.”