Invention Application
- Patent Title: Process Corner Detection Circuit Based on Self-Timing Oscillation Ring
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Application No.: US15321111Application Date: 2014-12-26
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Publication No.: US20170219649A1Publication Date: 2017-08-03
- Inventor: Weiwei Shan , Longxing Shi , Jun Yang
- Applicant: Southeast University
- Priority: CN201410291341.9 20140625
- International Application: PCT/CN2014/095074 WO 20141226
- Main IPC: G01R31/28
- IPC: G01R31/28 ; H03K3/03

Abstract:
A process corner detection circuit based on a self-timing oscillation ring comprises a reset circuit (1), the self-timing oscillation ring (2), and a counting module (3). The self-timing oscillation ring (2) consists of m two-input Miller units and inverters, and a two-input AND gate, m being a positive integer greater than or equal to 3. The circuit can be used for detecting a process corner of a fabricated integrated circuit chip, and reflecting the process corner of the chip according to the number of oscillations of the self-timing oscillation ring (2). The number of oscillations of the self-timing oscillation ring (2) in different process corners is acquired by Hspice simulation before the chip tape-out, and the process corner of the chip after the chip tape-out can be determined according to the actually measured number of oscillations.
Public/Granted literature
- US10422830B2 Process corner detection circuit based on self-timing oscillation ring Public/Granted day:2019-09-24
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