Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Selective coupling of power rails to a memory domain(s) in a processor-based system
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Application No.: US15087377Application Date: 2016-03-31
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Publication No.: US09977480B2Publication Date: 2018-05-22
- Inventor: Yeshwant Nagaraj Kolla , Neel Shashank Natekar
- Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: WT&T/Qualcomm
- Main IPC: G06F1/32
- IPC: G06F1/32 ; G06F1/26 ; G11C5/06 ; G11C5/14

Abstract:
Selective coupling of power rails to memory domain(s) in processor-based system, such as to reduce or avoid the need to provide intentional decoupling capacitance in logic domain(s) is disclosed. To avoid or reduce providing additional intentional decoupling capacitance in logic domain to mitigate voltage droops on logic power rail, power rail selection circuit is provided. The power rail selection circuit is configured to couple memory domain to a logic power rail when the logic power rail can satisfy a minimum operating voltage of memory arrays. The additional intrinsic decoupling capacitance of the memory arrays is coupled to the logic power rail. However, if the operating voltage of the logic power rail is scaled down below the minimum operating voltage of the memory arrays when the logic domain does not need higher operation functionality, the power rail selection circuit is configured to couple the memory domain to separate memory power rail.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160306412A1 SELECTIVE COUPLING OF POWER RAILS TO A MEMORY DOMAIN(S) IN A PROCESSOR-BASED SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2016-10-20
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