Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Frequency-locked and phase-locked loop-based clock glitch detection for security
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Application No.: US18106398Application Date: 2023-02-06
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Publication No.: US11962312B2Publication Date: 2024-04-16
- Inventor: Sanquan Song , Stephen G. Tell , Nikola Nedovic
- Applicant: NVIDIA Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
- Current Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Lowenstein Sandler LLP
- Main IPC: H03L7/099
- IPC: H03L7/099 ; H03L7/089

Abstract:
A glitch detection device includes an oscillator to generate multiple local clocks of multiple different phases and a sampling circuit to oversample, using the multiple local clocks, a system clock to generate multiple samples of the system clock. The device further includes digital logic that in turn includes a glitch detector to monitor a variation in pulse width of the system clock based on counting the multiple samples and to report a glitch in response to detecting a variation in the pulse width that exceeds a threshold value. The digital logic further includes a loop filter coupled between the glitch detector and the oscillator. The loop filter variably adjusts the oscillator based on a frequency of each of the multiple samples to control an output frequency of each of the multiple different phases of the oscillator.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230387922A1 FREQUENCY-LOCKED AND PHASE-LOCKED LOOP-BASED CLOCK GLITCH DETECTION FOR SECURITY Public/Granted day:2023-11-30
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