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US07646177B2 Design structure for a duty cycle measurement apparatus that operates in a calibration mode and a test mode
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用于在校准模式和测试模式下工作的占空比测量装置的设计结构
- 专利标题: Design structure for a duty cycle measurement apparatus that operates in a calibration mode and a test mode
- 专利标题(中): 用于在校准模式和测试模式下工作的占空比测量装置的设计结构
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申请号: US12347853申请日: 2008-12-31
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公开(公告)号: US07646177B2公开(公告)日: 2010-01-12
- 发明人: David William Boerstler , Eskinder Hailu , Jieming Qi
- 申请人: David William Boerstler , Eskinder Hailu , Jieming Qi
- 申请人地址: US NY Armonk
- 专利权人: International Business Machines Corporation
- 当前专利权人: International Business Machines Corporation
- 当前专利权人地址: US NY Armonk
- 代理商 Matt Talpis; Mark P Kahler
- 主分类号: H02J7/00
- IPC分类号: H02J7/00
摘要:
A design structure for an on-chip duty cycle measurement system may be embodied in a machine readable medium for designing, manufacturing or testing an integrated circuit. The design structure may embody an apparatus that measures the duty cycle of a reference clock signal that a clock circuit supplies to a duty cycle measurement (DCM) circuit. The design structure may specify that the DCM circuit includes a capacitor driven by a charge pump and that a reference clock signal drives the charge pump. The design structure may specify that the clock circuit varies the duty cycle of the reference clock signal among a number of known duty cycle values. The design structure may specify that the DCM circuit stores resultant capacitor voltage values corresponding to each of the known duty cycle values in a data store. The DCM circuit may apply a test clock signal having an unknown duty cycle to the capacitor via the charge pump, thus charging the capacitor to a new voltage value that corresponds to the duty cycle of the test clock signal. The design structure may specify that control software accesses the data store to determine the duty cycle to which the test clock signal corresponds.
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