Abstract:The Vcc level and temperature of IC's are important parameters which determine the power / performance. Resonances in the package and platform can cause significant AC voltage droops which can degrade functionality, requiring additional guard-band. Prior-art droop detectors utilize digital delay circuits, such as tunable replica circuits to measure these droops. However, the delay is a strong function of temperature as well as the DC Vcc level, making it difficult to differentiate the AC droop across different… Show more
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