Invention Grant
- Patent Title: All-digital voltage monitor (ADVM) with single-cycle latency
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Application No.: US16783096Application Date: 2020-02-05
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Publication No.: US10784874B1Publication Date: 2020-09-22
- Inventor: Suyoung Bang , Eric Samson , Wootaek Lim , Charles Augustine , Muhammad Khellah
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Green, Howard & Mughal LLP
- Main IPC: H03L7/02
- IPC: H03L7/02 ; H03M1/30 ; H03M1/38 ; G04F10/00 ; H03L7/081 ; H03L7/085

Abstract:
An all-digital voltage monitor (ADVM) generates a multi-bit output code that changes in proportion to a voltage being monitored, by leveraging the voltage impact on a gate delay. ADVM utilizes a simple delay chain, which receives a clock-cycle-long pulse every clock cycle, such that the monitored supply voltage is sampled for one full cycle every cycle. The outputs of all delay cells of the delay chain collectively represents a current voltage state as a digital thermometer code. In AVDM, a voltage droop event thus results in a decrease in the output code from a nominal value, while an overshoot results in an increase in the output code.
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