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US09400308B2 Multi-domain heterogeneous process-voltage-temperature tracking for integrated circuit power reduction 有权
用于集成电路功率降低的多域异构过程电压 - 温度跟踪

Multi-domain heterogeneous process-voltage-temperature tracking for integrated circuit power reduction
Abstract:
The systems and method described herein provide efficient (e.g., low power and low area) techniques to track performance in numerous supply domains with heterogeneous circuits that are used in a large system-on-a-chip integrated circuit (SoCs). The heterogeneous circuits can include circuits made with different devices, different cell libraries, and different hard macros that are in different power supply domains. Performance measurements from performance sensors (or process-voltage-temperature (PVT) sensors) that are spread about the SoC are collected and processed to determine voltage levels for each of the supply domains. A single controller can receive can determine voltage levels for a whole SoC. The performance sensors are connected to the controller by a scan chain. The techniques are flexible and can be easily adapted for use in SoCs with different power supply domains and types of circuits.
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