Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for reducing power delivery network complexity through local power multiplexers
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Application No.: US15171851Application Date: 2016-06-02
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Publication No.: US10078358B2Publication Date: 2018-09-18
- Inventor: Juan Ochoa Munoz , Yuancheng Chris Pan , Mikhail Popovich , Joon Hyung Chung
- Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: Loza & Loza LLP
- Main IPC: G06F1/00
- IPC: G06F1/00 ; G06F1/32
Abstract:
A power delivery network (PDN) including a battery, a set of regulators for generating supply voltages, and an integrated circuit (IC) including power rails configured to receive the supply voltages. The IC further includes an IC chip having a set of cores. The power rails includes a larger rail configured to provide a full range of currents, and the other smaller power rails each configured to provide lower range of currents. The IC includes multiplexers having first inputs coupled respectively to the smaller rails, second inputs coupled to the larger rail, and outputs coupled to the cores. When the smaller rail is able to supply the current needed by a core, the multiplexer is configured to couple the smaller rail to the core. When the smaller rail cannot supply the current needed by the core, the multiplexer is configured to couple the larger rail to the core.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170351315A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING POWER DELIVERY NETWORK COMPLEXITY THROUGH LOCAL POWER MULTIPLEXERS Public/Granted day:2017-12-07
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