Controlling voltage generation and voltage comparison

    公开(公告)号:US09496785B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-11-15

    申请号:US14922783

    申请日:2015-10-26

    Applicant: ARM Limited

    CPC classification number: H02M3/157 G01R19/0084 H02M3/07 Y02B70/16

    Abstract: An integrated circuit has voltage generating circuitry for generating an on-chip voltage from a supply voltage in response to clock pulses. Clock control circuitry controls transmission of the clock pulses to the voltage generating circuitry. The clock control circuitry receives a reference voltage and a digital offset value comprising a binary numeric value identifying an offset. The clock control circuitry suppresses transmission of the clock pulses if the on-chip voltage is greater than the sum of the reference voltage and the offset identified by the digital offset value, to reduce power consumption. The offset can be tuned digitally to vary the average level of the on-chip voltage. A similar digital tuning mechanism may be used in a clocked comparator to compare a first voltage with a digitally tunable threshold voltage.

    Monitoring circuit and method
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10664031B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-26

    申请号:US15361405

    申请日:2016-11-26

    Applicant: ARM Limited

    Abstract: Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present techniques provide a voltage monitoring circuit for low power minimum-energy sensor nodes. The circuit comprises sensing circuitry to sense a monitored signal having a plurality of operating signal states; a first comparator having a first input for receiving an upper threshold signal; and a second comparator having a first input for receiving a lower threshold signal, the upper and lower threshold signals defining a range which includes at least one signal state of the plurality of operating states of the monitored signal, wherein the first and second comparators have a bias input for receiving a bias configuration setting, the bias configuration setting being selectable according to an operating signal state of the monitored signal.

    Comparison of a Voltage Signal to a Reference

    公开(公告)号:US20200089266A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-19

    申请号:US16130938

    申请日:2018-09-13

    Applicant: Arm Limited

    Abstract: Briefly, embodiments of claimed subject matter relate to comparison of a signal amplitude, such as a signal originating from a battery, for example, with a reference signal. A reference signal may be generated via body-biasing of one or more transistors, for example, which permit operation of the one or more transistors in a sub-threshold state, in which current through the one or more transistors comprises an exponential relationship to an applied voltage. Thus, at least in particular embodiments, detection of low battery voltage or battery overvoltage may be performed utilizing only a very small amount of electrical power

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