Error recovery circuit oriented to CPU pipeline

    公开(公告)号:US09600382B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-03-21

    申请号:US14442071

    申请日:2013-08-30

    Abstract: Disclosed is an error recovery circuit facing a CPU assembly line, comprising: on-chip monitoring circuits (1), an error signal statistics module (2), a voltage frequency control module (3), an error recovery control module (4), an in-situ error recovery module (5) and an upper-layer error recovery module (6), wherein each of the on-chip monitoring circuits (1) is integrated at the end of each stage of assembly lines of the previous N−1 stages of assembly lines of a CPU kernel with an N-stage assembly line structure, so as to monitor the time sequence information about each clock period of an operating circuit, wherein N is a positive integer which is greater than or equal to 3 and less than 20. The present invention provides the on-line time sequence monitoring on the CPU kernel with N stages of assembly lines to search for the lowest possible operating voltage of the circuit, and to reduce the margin of the operating voltage reserved for the circuit in the design stage, thereby significantly reducing the power consumption of the circuit and improving the energy efficiency of the circuit.

    Transverse ultra-thin insulated gate bipolar transistor having high current density
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    Transverse ultra-thin insulated gate bipolar transistor having high current density 有权
    具有高电流密度的横向超薄绝缘栅双极晶体管

    公开(公告)号:US09240469B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-01-19

    申请号:US14439715

    申请日:2012-12-27

    Abstract: A transverse ultra-thin insulated gate bipolar transistor having current density includes: a P substrate, where the P substrate is provided with a buried oxide layer thereon, the buried oxide layer is provided with an N epitaxial layer thereon, the N epitaxial layer is provided with an N well region and P base region therein, the P base region is provided with a first P contact region and an N source region therein, the N well region is provided with an N buffer region therein, the N well region is provided with a field oxide layer thereon, the N buffer region is provided with a P drain region therein, the N epitaxial layer is provided therein with a P base region array including a P annular base region, the P base region array is located between the N well region and the P base region, the P annular base region is provided with a second P contact region and an N annular source region therein, and the second P contact region is located in the N annular source region. The present invention greatly increases current density of a transverse ultra-thin insulated gate bipolar transistor, thus significantly improving the performance of an intelligent power module.

    Abstract translation: 具有电流密度的横向超薄绝缘栅双极晶体管包括:P基板,其中P基板在其上设置有掩埋氧化物层,所述掩埋氧化物层在其上设置有N外延层,提供N外延层 在其中具有N阱区域和P基极区域,P基极区域中设置有第一P接触区域和N源极区域,N阱区域中设置有N个缓冲区域,N阱区域设置有 在其上的场氧化物层,N缓冲区在其中设置有P漏极区,N外延层中设置有包括P环状基极区的P基区阵列,P基区阵列位于N阱之间 区域和P基区域中,P环状基部区域设置有第二P接触区域和N环状源极区域,第二P接触区域位于N环状源极区域中。 本发明大大增加了横向超薄绝缘栅双极晶体管的电流密度,从而显着提高了智能功率模块的性能。

    Control method for four-switch buck-boost converter

    公开(公告)号:US12062985B1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-13

    申请号:US18566102

    申请日:2022-09-26

    CPC classification number: H02M3/1582 H02M1/0058 H02M1/088

    Abstract: A control method for a four-switch buck-boost converter is provided. The control method adopts four-stage control, and divides the load range into two sections and adopts different control strategies according to a critical load value corresponding to optimal control. In Boost mode, before the critical load, T1 and T2 are kept constant, T3 is a minimum value for realizing soft-switching, and T4 decreases with the increase of the load; when the critical load is reached, T4 drops to 0; and after the critical load, T1, T2, T3 and T increase with the load. In Buck mode, before the critical load, T2 and T3 are kept constant, T1 is a minimum value for realizing soft-switching, and T4 decreases with the increase of the load; when the critical load is reached, T4 drops to 0; and after the critical load, T1, T2, T3 and T increase with the load.

    Gate drive circuit for reducing reverse recovery current of power device

    公开(公告)号:US11152936B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-19

    申请号:US17044623

    申请日:2020-04-15

    Abstract: The present invention discloses a gate drive circuit for reducing a reverse recovery current of a power device, and belongs to the field of basic electronic circuit technologies. The gate drive circuit includes a high-voltage LDMOS transistor, a diode forming a freewheeling path when the diode is turned on or a low-voltage MOS transistor in anti-parallel connection with a body diode, and a voltage detection circuit. When the power device is turned off, a freewheeling current produced by an inductive load flows through a freewheeling diode, the voltage detection circuit detects that the freewheeling diode is turned on, and an output signal is processed by a control circuit, to cause the drive circuit to output a high level, so that channels of the power device and the high-voltage LDMOS transistor are turned on, the freewheeling current flows through the conductive channels, almost not through the freewheeling diode, and there is no reverse recovery current in the freewheeling diode at this time, thereby reducing the reverse recovery current of the power device.

    Multiply-accumulate calculation method and circuit suitable for neural network

    公开(公告)号:US10984313B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-20

    申请号:US16757421

    申请日:2019-01-24

    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of analog integrated circuits, and provides a multiply-accumulate calculation method and circuit suitable for a neural network, which realizes large-scale multiply-accumulate calculation of the neural network with low power consumption and high speed. The multiply-accumulate calculation circuit comprises a multiplication calculation circuit array and an accumulation calculation circuit. The multiplication calculation circuit array is composed of M groups of multiplication calculation circuits. Each group of multiplication calculation circuits is composed of one multiplication array unit and eight selection-shift units. The order of the multiplication array unit is quantized in real time by using on-chip training to provide a shared input for the selection-shift units, achieving increased operating rate and reduced power consumption. The accumulation calculation circuit is composed of a delay accumulation circuit, a TDC conversion circuit, and a shift-addition circuit in series. The delay accumulation circuit comprises eight controllable delay chains for dynamically controlling the number of iterations and accumulating data multiple times in a time domain, so as to meet the difference in calculation scale of different network layers, save hardware storage space, reduce calculation complexity, and reduce data scheduling.

    Process corner detection circuit based on self-timing oscillation ring

    公开(公告)号:US10422830B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-24

    申请号:US15321111

    申请日:2014-12-26

    Abstract: A process corner detection circuit based on a self-timing ring oscillator comprises a reset circuit (1), the self-timing oscillation ring (2), and a counting module (3). The self-timing ring oscillator (2) consists of m two-input Muller C-elements and inverters, and a two-input AND gate, m being a positive integer greater than or equal to 3. The circuit can be used for detecting a process corner of a fabricated integrated circuit chip, and reflecting the process corner of the chip according to the number of oscillations of the self-timing ring oscillator (2). The number of oscillations of the self-timing ring oscillator (2) in different process corners is acquired by Hspice simulation before the chip tape-out, and the process corner of the chip after the chip tape-out can be determined according to the actually measured number of oscillations.

    Online monitoring unit and control circuit for ultra-wide voltage range applications

    公开(公告)号:US10268790B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-23

    申请号:US15560161

    申请日:2017-02-24

    Abstract: An online monitoring unit and a control circuit for ultra-wide voltage range applications are disclosed. Compared with a conventional online monitoring unit, present invention eliminates a need to reserve delay units, replaces flip-flops in the conventional online monitoring unit with a latch, and uses a transition detector with fewer transistors than that of a shadow latch in the conventional online monitoring unit, thereby reducing an area and a power consumption of the online monitoring unit significantly and improving an energy efficiency of online monitoring techniques. In addition, in the ultra-wide voltage range applications, a time borrowing property of the latch adopted by the present invention can be utilized to prevent a timing error caused by process-voltage-temperature (PVT) variations, thus enabling a minimization of a timing margin and ensuring a higher power efficiency. The present invention also discloses a control circuit for use with the online monitoring unit.

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