Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Integrated circuits with programmable well biasing
- Patent Title (中): 具有可编程阱偏置的集成电路
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Application No.: US12470813Application Date: 2009-05-22
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Publication No.: US07880492B2Publication Date: 2011-02-01
- Inventor: Andreas D. Olofsson
- Applicant: Andreas D. Olofsson
- Applicant Address: US MA Norwood
- Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Norwood
- Agency: Bingham McCutchen LLP
- Main IPC: G01R31/02
- IPC: G01R31/02

Abstract:
An integrated circuit includes a substrate, a storage device formed in the substrate to hold bias settings, and operational blocks formed in the substrate, each operational block including an operational circuit and a charge pump to provide well bias voltages to the operational circuit in response to one or more of the bias settings. A method for testing an integrated circuit having two or more operational blocks includes: (a) determining a maximum operating speed of each of the blocks at a minimum supply voltage; (b) selecting a block that has a slow operating speed; (c) selecting a well bias to speed up the selected block; (d) selecting a supply voltage to meet a target operating frequency at the selected well bias and measuring power; (e) repeating acts (b)-(d) while the measured power is less than a baseline power; and (f) saving the selected well bias and supply voltage settings for operation of the integrated circuit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090231023A1 INTEGRATED CIRCUITS WITH PROGRAMMABLE WELL BIASING Public/Granted day:2009-09-17
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