Analog Devices Global

Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company

Shengbing Zhou

Navdeep Singh Dhanjal

Michael Edward Bradley

Douglas Chisholm

Clint Wolff

Hossain Opal

An apparatus comprises an integrated circuit (IC) including sequencer circuitry; and a memory integral to or operatively coupled to the integrated circuit, wherein at least a portion of the memory is organized as a plurality of hierarchical linked lists defining a finite state machine of a plurality of finite IC states; wherein the sequencer circuitry is configured to: receive one or more control words from the hierarchical linked lists associated with an IC state; advance the IC to the IC state according to the one or more control words; and perform one or more actions corresponding to the IC state.

Using linked-lists to create feature rich finite-state machines in integrated circuits

A system comprises a plurality of power supplies, wherein a power supply provides a supply voltage rail to a voltage domain of the system; a plurality of power supply voltage sequencer devices electrically coupled to multiple power supplies of the plurality of power supplies, wherein a voltage sequencer device is configured to activate the multiple power supplies in a specified sequence; and a bus electrically coupled to the plurality of power supply voltage sequencer devices, wherein the bus is configured to communicate state information of the plurality of power supply voltage sequencer devices.

Architecture to scale finite-state machines across integrated circuits using a digital bus

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Shengbing Zhou