Invention Application
- Patent Title: Controlling Voltage Generation and Voltage Comparison
- Patent Title (中): 控制电压产生和电压比较
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Application No.: US14922783Application Date: 2015-10-26
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Publication No.: US20160118882A1Publication Date: 2016-04-28
- Inventor: Parameshwarappa Anand Kumar SAVANTH , James Edward MYERS , David Walter FLYNN , Bal S. SANDHU
- Applicant: ARM Limited
- Main IPC: H02M3/157
- IPC: H02M3/157 ; G01R19/00

Abstract:
An integrated circuit has voltage generating circuitry for generating an on-chip voltage from a supply voltage in response to clock pulses. Clock control circuitry controls transmission of the clock pulses to the voltage generating circuitry. The clock control circuitry receives a reference voltage and a digital offset value comprising a binary numeric value identifying an offset. The clock control circuitry suppresses transmission of the clock pulses if the on-chip voltage is greater than the sum of the reference voltage and the offset identified by the digital offset value, to reduce power consumption. The offset can be tuned digitally to vary the average level of the on-chip voltage. A similar digital tuning mechanism may be used in a clocked comparator to compare a first voltage with a digitally tunable threshold voltage.
Public/Granted literature
- US09496785B2 Controlling voltage generation and voltage comparison Public/Granted day:2016-11-15
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