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Bettina Rebaud

Marc Belleville

Pascal Vivet

Edith Beigne

Sylvain Miermont

Philippe Maurine

Philippe Lionel Maurine

A device for powering an electronic circuit that applies at least a first voltage or a second voltage, different from the first voltage, to the electronic circuit. The device includes a performance monitor that receives an item of information defining a constraint and determines a first duration and a second duration, such that the operation of the electronic circuit at a first frequency associated with the first voltage for the first duration, and at a second frequency associated with the second voltage for the second duration, complies with the constraint. The device applies the first voltage and the first frequency to the circuit for the first duration and the second voltage and the second frequency for the second duration.

Device for powering an electronic circuit, in particular a digital circuit, and associated method

A digital electronic circuit includes: a plurality of sequential elements; at least one data-conducting path connecting an input sequential element to a destination sequential element; a clock outputting a clock signal on a clock tree for setting the speed of the sequential elements; a monitoring device receiving, as an input, at least one data signal traveling on a conducting path and arriving at a destination sequential element, the monitoring device including: a module for defining at least one detection window according to the clock tree; and a detector for detecting a transition of each data signal received during a detection window; and wherein each detection window is defined so as to enable the detection or anticipation of a fault corresponding to a violation of the rise time or the maintenance time of a data signal relative to a clock signal edge received by the destination sequential element receiving the data signal.

Device for monitoring the operation of a digital circuit

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Grenoble, France

Bettina Rebaud