摘要:
An integrated circuit with a low voltage read/write operation is provided. The integrated circuit may include a processor and a plurality of memory cells organized in rows and columns and coupled to the processor, wherein a row of memory cells comprises a word line and all of the memory cells coupled to the word line, and wherein a column of memory cells comprises a bit line and all of the memory cells coupled to the bit line. The integrated circuit may further include a first power supply voltage terminal for receiving a first power supply voltage, wherein the first power supply voltage is provided to power the processor, and wherein the first power supply voltage is provided to power the plurality of memory cells during a first access operation of the plurality of memory cells. The integrated circuit may further include a second power supply voltage terminal for receiving a second power supply voltage higher than the first power supply voltage, wherein the second power supply voltage is provided to power the plurality of memory cells during a second access operation of the plurality of memory cells.
摘要:
An integrated circuit with a low voltage read/write operation is provided. The integrated circuit may include a processor and a plurality of memory cells organized in rows and columns and coupled to the processor, wherein a row of memory cells comprises a word line and all of the memory cells coupled to the word line, and wherein a column of memory cells comprises a bit line and all of the memory cells coupled to the bit line. The integrated circuit may further include a first power supply voltage terminal for receiving a first power supply voltage, wherein the first power supply voltage is provided to power the processor, and wherein the first power supply voltage is provided to power the plurality of memory cells during a first access operation of the plurality of memory cells. The integrated circuit may further include a second power supply voltage terminal for receiving a second power supply voltage higher than the first power supply voltage, wherein the second power supply voltage is provided to power the plurality of memory cells during a second access operation of the plurality of memory cells.
摘要:
An electronic circuit includes a plurality of circuit blocks, a plurality of bias circuits, a switching circuit, and plurality of transistors. The plurality of circuit blocks each includes a high power terminal and a low power terminal. The switching circuit includes a plurality of switches for selectively coupling a bias circuit of the plurality of bias circuits to the low power terminal of a circuit block of the plurality of circuit blocks. Each bias circuit of the plurality of bias circuits is selectively couplable to the low power terminal of each of the plurality of circuit blocks. Each transistor of the plurality of transistors has a first current terminal coupled to a circuit ground terminal, and each transistor of the plurality of transistors has a control terminal for controlling the conductivity of the plurality of the transistors by a bias circuit of the plurality of bias circuits.
摘要:
A method includes an integrated circuit with a memory. The memory operates with an operating voltage. A value of a minimum operating voltage of the memory is determined. The value of the minimum operating voltage is stored in a non-volatile memory location that maybe a non-volatile register. This minimum operating voltage information can then be used in determining when an alternative power supply voltage may be switched to the memory or ensuring that the minimum voltage is otherwise met. The minimum voltage can be used only internal to the integrated circuit or also provided externally to a user.
摘要:
An electronic circuit includes a plurality of circuit blocks, a plurality of bias circuits, a switching circuit, and plurality of transistors. The plurality of circuit blocks each includes a high power terminal and a low power terminal. The switching circuit includes a plurality of switches for selectively coupling a bias circuit of the plurality of bias circuits to the low power terminal of a circuit block of the plurality of circuit blocks. Each bias circuit of the plurality of bias circuits is selectively couplable to the low power terminal of each of the plurality of circuit blocks. Each transistor of the plurality of transistors has a first current terminal coupled to a circuit ground terminal, and each transistor of the plurality of transistors has a control terminal for controlling the conductivity of the plurality of the transistors by a bias circuit of the plurality of bias circuits.
摘要:
A method includes an integrated circuit with a memory. The memory operates with an operating voltage. A value of a minimum operating voltage of the memory is determined. The value of the minimum operating voltage is stored in a non-volatile memory location that maybe a non-volatile register. This minimum operating voltage information can then be used in determining when an alternative power supply voltage may be switched to the memory or ensuring that the minimum voltage is otherwise met. The minimum voltage can be used only internal to the integrated circuit or also provided externally to a user.
摘要:
A method and data processing system for accessing an entry in a memory array by placing a tag memory unit (114) in parallel with an operand adder circuit (112) to enable tag lookup and generation of speculative way hit/miss information (126) directly from the operands (111, 113) without using the output sum of the operand adder. PGZ-encoded address bits (0:51) from the operands (111, 113) are applied with a carry-out value (Cout48) to a content-addressable memory array (114) to generate two speculative hit/miss signals. A sum value (EA51) computed from the least significant base and offset address bits determines which of the speculative hit/miss signals is selected for output (126).
摘要:
A method includes storing a first transaction entry to a first software configurable storage location, storing a second transaction entry to a second software configurable storage location, determining that a first transaction indicated by the first transaction entry has occurred, determining that a second transaction indicated by the second transaction entry has occurred subsequent to the first transaction, and, in response to determining that the first transaction occurred and the second transaction occurred, storing at least one transaction attribute captured during at least one clock cycle subsequent to the second transaction. The first and second software configurable storage locations may be located in a trace buffer, where the at least one transaction attribute is stored to the trace buffer and overwrites the first and second transaction attributes. Each transaction entry may include a dead cycle field, a consecutive transaction requirement field, and a last entry field.
摘要:
A cache design is described in which corresponding accesses to tag and information arrays are phased in time, and in which tags are retrieved (typically speculatively) from a tag array without benefit of an effective address calculation subsequently used for a corresponding retrieval from an information array. In some exploitations, such a design may allow cycle times (and throughput) of a memory subsystem to more closely match demands of some processor and computation system architectures. Our techniques seek to allow early (indeed speculative) retrieval from the tag array without delays that would otherwise be associated with calculation of an effective address eventually employed for a corresponding retrieval from the information array. Speculation can be resolved using the eventually calculated effective address or using separate functionality. In some embodiments, we use calculated effective addresses for way selection based on tags retrieved from the tag array.
摘要:
A multiplexed data flip-flop circuit (500) is described in which a multiplexer (510) outputs functional or scan data, a master latch (520) generates a master latch output signal at a hold time under control of a master clock signal, a slave latch (540) generates a flip flop output signal at a launch time under control of a slave clock signal, clock generation circuitry (550) generates a second clock signal that has a DC state during a functional mode and has a switching state during a scan mode, and data propagation logic circuitry (564) uses the first and second clock signals to generate the master and slave clock signals during a scan mode to delay the launch time of the slave latch with respect to the hold time of the master latch.