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- 专利标题: Sensing supply voltage swings within an integrated circuit
- 专利标题(中): 检测集成电路内的电源电压摆幅
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申请号: US13341547申请日: 2011-12-30
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公开(公告)号: US09057761B2公开(公告)日: 2015-06-16
- 发明人: Paul Nicholas Whatmough , David Michael Bull , Shidhartha Das
- 申请人: Paul Nicholas Whatmough , David Michael Bull , Shidhartha Das
- 申请人地址: GB Cambridge
- 专利权人: ARM Limited
- 当前专利权人: ARM Limited
- 当前专利权人地址: GB Cambridge
- 代理机构: Pramudji Law Group PLLC
- 代理商 Ari Pramudji
- 主分类号: G01R31/30
- IPC分类号: G01R31/30
摘要:
An integrated circuit including a plurality of sensors configured to sense variations in supply voltage levels at points within the integrated circuit is disclosed. The plurality of sensors are distributed across the integrated circuit and have transistor devices such that process variations in the transistor devices within the sensors are such that a sensing result will have a random voltage offset that has a predetermined probability of lying within a pre-defined voltage offset range. The integrated circuit is configured to transmit results from multiple ones of the plurality of sensors to processing circuitry such that the variations in the supply voltage levels can be determined with a voltage offset range that is reduced compared to the pre-defined voltage offset range.
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