Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Low power high resolution oscillator based voltage sensor
- Patent Title (中): 低功耗基于高分辨率振荡器的电压传感器
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Application No.: US14459208Application Date: 2014-08-13
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Publication No.: US09575095B2Publication Date: 2017-02-21
- Inventor: Junmou Zhang , Chuang Zhang , Yuancheng Christopher Pan , Nan Chen
- Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: Loza & Loza LLP
- Main IPC: G01R23/02
- IPC: G01R23/02 ; G01R19/00 ; G01R31/28 ; G01R19/165

Abstract:
Systems and methods for sensing voltage on a chip are described herein. In one embodiment, a voltage sensor comprises a voltage-controlled oscillator coupled to a voltage being sensed, and a plurality of transition detectors, wherein each of the transition detectors is coupled to a different location on the oscillator, and wherein each of the transition detectors is configured to count a number of transitions at the respective location over a time period. The voltage sensor also comprises an adder configured to add the numbers of transitions from the transition detectors to generate an output value that is approximately proportional to the voltage.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160047847A1 LOW POWER HIGH RESOLUTION OSCILLATOR BASED VOLTAGE SENSOR Public/Granted day:2016-02-18
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