公开(公告)号：US20060055391A1

公开(公告)日：2006-03-16

申请号：US10926597

申请日：2004-08-26

申请人： Jente Kuang ,  Jethro Law ,  Hung Ngo ,  Kevin Nowka

发明人： Jente Kuang ,  Jethro Law ,  Hung Ngo ,  Kevin Nowka

IPC分类号： F02P3/02

CPC分类号： H03K19/0016

摘要： Virtual power-gated cells (VPC) are configured with control circuitry for buffering control signals and a power-gated block (PGB) comprising two or more NFETs for virtual ground rail nodes and PFETs for virtual positive rail nodes. Each VPC has a control voltage input, a control voltage output, a node coupled to a power supply voltage potential, and a virtual power-gated node that is coupled and decoupled from the power supply potential in response to logic states on the control input. The control signals are buffered by non-power-gated inverters before being applied to the input of a PGB. VPCs may propagate a control signal that is in phase with or inverted from a corresponding control signal at the control input. VPCs may be cascaded to create virtual power rails in chains and power grids. The control signals are latched at the cell boundaries or latched in response to a clock signal.

摘要翻译： 虚拟功率门控单元（VPC）配置有用于缓冲控制信号的控制电路和包括用于虚拟接地轨道节点的两个或更多个NFET的功率门控块（PGB），以及用于虚拟正轨节点的PFET。 每个VPC具有控制电压输入，控制电压输出，耦合到电源电压电位的节点以及响应于控制输入上的逻辑状态与电源电位耦合和去耦合的虚拟电源门控节点。 在施加到PGB的输入之前，控制信号由非电源门控的逆变器进行缓冲。 VPC可以传播与控制输入处的相应控制信号同相或反相的控制信号。 VPC可以级联以在链和电网中创建虚拟电源轨。 控制信号在单元边界被锁存或响应于时钟信号锁存。