DEVICE, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ON-CHIP GENERATION OF A REFERENCE CLOCK SIGNAL

    公开(公告)号:US20200005728A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-02

    申请号:US16019924

    申请日:2018-06-27

    Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms for an integrated circuit (IC) chip to generate a clock signal for use by one or more resources of the IC chip. In an embodiment, a clock signal is generated with phase-locked loop (PLL) circuitry of an IC chip based on a cyclical signal which is provided to the IC chip by an external source. A supply voltage provided to the PLL circuitry is automatically updated based on one of a requested frequency for the clock signal, a frequency of the received cyclical signal, or a voltage of a control signal used by a voltage controlled oscillator of the PLL circuitry. In another embodiment, a series of incremental changes to a frequency of the clock signal is automatically performed according to a predefined overclocking scheme or underclocking scheme.

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