Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Integrated circuit adaptive voltage scaling with de-aging
- Patent Title (中): 集成电路自适应电压缩放与衰老
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Application No.: US14850801Application Date: 2015-09-10
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Publication No.: US09484892B1Publication Date: 2016-11-01
- Inventor: Mohammad Reza Kakoee , Shih-Hsin Jason Hu , Min Chen , Jasmin Smaila Ibrahimovic , Carlos Auyon , Sorin Adrian Dobre , Navid Toosizadeh , Nan Chen , Mohamed Waleed Allam
- Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP
- Main IPC: G01R31/317
- IPC: G01R31/317 ; H03K3/011 ; H03K3/012

Abstract:
An integrated circuit compensates for circuit aging by measuring the aging with an aging sensor and controlling a supply voltage based on the measured aging. The operating environment for the aging sensor can be set to reduce impacts of non-aging effects on the measured aging. For example, the operating environment can use a temperature inversion voltage. An initial aging measurement value which is the difference between an initial aged measurement and an initial unaged measurement can be stored on the integrated circuit. A core power reduction controller can use the measured aging and the stored initial aging measurement value to update a performance-sensor target value and then perform adaptive voltage scaling using the using the updated performance-sensor target value.
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