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US09182768B2 Voltage optimization circuit and managing voltage margins of an integrated circuit 有权
电压优化电路和管理集成电路的电压裕度

Voltage optimization circuit and managing voltage margins of an integrated circuit
Abstract:
A voltage margin controller, an IC included the same and a method of controlling voltage margin for a voltage domain of an IC are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the voltage margin controller includes: (1) monitoring branches including circuit function indicators configured to indicate whether circuitry in the voltage domain could operate at corresponding candidate reduced voltage levels and (2) a voltage margin adjuster coupled to the monitoring branches and configured to develop a voltage margin adjustment for a voltage regulator of the voltage domain based upon an operating number of the circuit function indicators.
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