Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method of duplicate circuit block swapping for noise reduction
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Application No.: US16912652Application Date: 2020-06-25
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Publication No.: US10972077B2Publication Date: 2021-04-06
- Inventor: Steffen Skaug , Vitor Pereira , Arup Mukherji
- Applicant: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
- Current Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Agent Gary Stanford
- Main IPC: G01R29/26
- IPC: G01R29/26 ; G06F1/04 ; H03B5/20 ; H03K3/013

Abstract:
An integrated circuit including a functional circuit including at least one swapping circuit node, multiple duplicate electronic circuits, and a switch circuit. The duplicate electronic circuits are integrated in close proximity with each other each including at least one electronic device that is susceptible to RTN. The switch circuit electrically couples a different selected subset of at least one of the duplicate electronic circuits to the at least one swapping circuit node for each of successive switching states during operation of the functional circuit. A method of reducing noise including selecting a subset of the duplicate electronic circuits, electrically coupling the selected duplicate electronic devices to at least one swapping circuit node of a functional circuit, and repeating the selecting and electrically coupling in successive switching states during operation of the functional circuit for different subsets of the duplicate electronic circuits.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200328731A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DUPLICATE CIRCUIT BLOCK SWAPPING FOR NOISE REDUCTION Public/Granted day:2020-10-15
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