IC ANALOG DEBUGGING AND CALIBRATION THEREOF

Patent №

US 7,203,613

Granted

2007-04-10

Filed 2004

Owner

SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC.

Lab

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10830881

An analog debugging block of an integrated circuit includes a multiplexor, a buffer, and a voltage-controlled oscillator. An analog voltage signal-of-interest is selectively passed through the multiplexor to the buffer. The buffer outputs an analog control voltage dependent on the selected analog voltage signal-of-interest. The analog control voltage serves as an input to the voltage-controlled oscillator and is used to control a frequency of a digital output signal generated from the voltage-controlled oscillator. The digital output signal from the voltage-controlled oscillator is driven off-chip, whereupon a frequency of the digital output signal is determined and compared against a collection of known frequencies that correspond to particular known voltages of the analog voltage signal-of-interest, thereby resulting in a determination of the value of the selected analog voltage signal-of-interest.

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AI classification

AI hardware0.98
Planning0.50
Vision0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00
Natural language0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC.

assignment · 156100654

Assignors

YEE, GIN S., GAUTHIER, CLAUDE R.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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