Abstract:
A first or primary field effect transistor ('FET') (620) is separated from a body contact thereto by one or more second FETs (632) that are placed electrically in parallel with the first FET (620). In this way, the body of the first FET (620) can be extended into the region occupied by the second FET (632) to allow contact to be made to the body of the first FET (620). In one embodiment, the gate conductor of the first FET (620) and a gate conductor of the second FET (632) are integral parts of a unitary conductive pattern. The unitary conductive pattern is made desirably small, and can be made as small as the smallest predetermined linewidth for gate conductors on an integrated circuit which includes the body-contacted FET. In this way, area and parasitic capacitance are kept small.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and apparatus for operating master and slave latches. SOLUTION: In a first embodiment, a method for operating a master latch and a slave latch coupled to the master latch is provided. The method includes steps of attempting to operate the master latch and the slave latch in a first mode in which (1) the master latch is held in an open condition; and (2) the slave latch is pulsed so as to latch data passed through the open master latch. If the master latch and the slave latch do not operate in the first mode, the master latch and the slave latch are operated in a second mode in which (1) a first clock signal is employed to latch data with the master latch; and (2) a second clock signal is employed to latch data latched by the master latch with the slave latch. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
A first or primary field effect transistor ("FET") (620) is separated from a body contact thereto by one or more second FETs (632) that are placed electrically in parallel with the first FET (620). In this way, the body of the first FET (620) can be extended into the region occupied by the second FET (632) to allow contact to be made to the body of the first FET (620). In one embodiment, the gate conductor of the first FET (620) and a gate conductor of the second FET (632) are integral parts of a unitary conductive pattern. The unitary conductive pattern is made desirably small, and can be made as small as the smallest predetermined linewidth for gate conductors on an integrated circuit which includes the body-contacted FET. In this way, area and parasitic capacitance are kept small.
Abstract:
A first or primary field effect transistor ("FET") is separated from a body contact thereto by one or more second FETs that are placed electrically in parallel with the first FET. In this way, the body of the first FET can be extended into the region occupied by the second FET to allow contact to be made to the body of the first FET. In one embodiment, the gate conductor of the first FET and a gate conductor of the second FET are integral parts of a unitary conductive pattern. The unitary conductive pattern is made desirably small, and can be made as small as the smallest predetermined linewidth for gate conductors on an integrated circuit which includes the body-contacted FET. In this way, area and parasitic capacitance are kept small.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a processor with a common supply rail, and some processor cores that share the common supply rail. Each of the cores output a core dIPC value and receives as an input a core throttling signal. The processor has a chip power management logic 301 which has inputs 302 - 309 for the dIPC values, a threshold register 334 for a dIPC threshold value, chip dIPC register 319 to hold a current global dIPC value based on the average of the core values, and dIPC history registers 320 - 327 holding historic global values with an average historic global value stored in a register 331. There is a subtraction unit 332 to provide an absolute difference of an average historic global dIPC value based on the historic global dIPC value and the current dIPC values. A magnitude comparator 333 provides a throttling signal when the absolute difference is above the dIPC threshold value, which is output 310 - 317 to the processor cores.