Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Distributed voltage network circuits employing voltage averaging, and related systems and methods
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Application No.: US14482456Application Date: 2014-09-10
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Publication No.: US09459637B2Publication Date: 2016-10-04
- Inventor: Burt Lee Price , Yeshwant Nagaraj Kolla , Dhaval Rajeshbhai Shah
- Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: Withrow & Terranova, PLLC
- Main IPC: G01R1/30
- IPC: G01R1/30 ; G05F1/46 ; H01L21/66 ; G01R19/00 ; G01R31/30

Abstract:
Distributed voltage network circuits employing voltage averaging, and related systems and methods are disclosed. In one aspect, because voltage in one area of a distributed load circuit may vary from voltage in a second area, a distributed voltage network circuit is configured to tap voltages from multiple areas to calculate average voltage in the distributed load circuit. The distributed voltage network circuit includes a voltage distribution source component having source nodes. Voltage is distributed from each source node to a corresponding voltage load node via resistive interconnects. Voltage tap nodes access voltage from each corresponding voltage load node. Each voltage tap node is coupled to an input node of a corresponding resistive element in voltage averaging circuit. An output node of each resistive element is coupled to a voltage output node of the voltage averaging circuit, generating the average voltage of the distributed load circuit on the voltage output node.
Public/Granted literature
- US09494957B2 Distributed voltage network circuits employing voltage averaging, and related systems and methods Public/Granted day:2016-11-15
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