gater

From gate +‎ -er.

gater (plural gaters)

1. A mechanism that saves power in a circuit by removing the clock signal while the circuit is not in use.
   • 2012, Rakesh Chadha, J. Bhasker, An ASIC Low Power Primer: Analysis, Techniques and Specification, page 118:

     Optimizing the selection of clock gaters based on activity is known as power-driven clock gating.

   • Patrick Lee, Introduction to Low-Power Design in VLSIs (page 125)

     With more clock buffers instead of gaters in the clock distribution, the power is significantly reduced based on Table 4-4.

2. A component of a neural network that determines the probability that each member of a set of predictors will be selected
   • 2015, Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville, chapter 12, in Deep Learning, page 438:

     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.

gater m or f

1. indefinite plural of gate

gater f

1. indefinite plural of gate

Borrowed from German Gatter.

gater n (plural gatere)

1. sawmill