National Cheng-kung University

Wen-Yu Su

Soon-Jyh Chang

Chien-Hung Tsai

Guan-Ying Huang

Kuen-Jong Lee

Lih-Yih Chiou

Chung-Ho Chen

Chia-Min Lin

Ta-Wei Chang

Ing-Chao Lin

Yu-Shiang Chien

Chih-Hung Kuo

An electronic device having a scratchpad memory and a management method are provided. A recording circuit records multiple counter values which correspond to entries in a Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB). A virtual address is matched with a first entry. If a cache miss occurs, the recording circuit updates a first counter value corresponding to the first entry, and determines if the first counter value meets a threshold criterion. If the first counter value meets the threshold criterion, the recording circuit transmits an interrupts signal to a processing unit, and the processing unit moves data into the scratchpad memory. If the first counter value does not meet the threshold criterion, the data is moved into a cache.

Electronic device having scratchpad memory and management method for scratchpad memory

A multi-point temperature sensing method for integrated circuit chips and a system of the same are revealed. The system includes at least one slave temperature sensor embedded at preset positions for measuring temperature of a block and a master temperature sensor embedded in an integrated circuit chip and electrically connected to each slave temperature sensor. Variations of the slave temperature sensor induced by variations of process, voltage and temperature are corrected by the master temperature sensor. Thus the area the temperature sensors required on the integrated circuit chip is dramatically reduced and the stability of the temperature control system is improved. The problem of conventional System-on-a-Chip that only a limited number of temperature sensors could be used due to the area they occupied can be solved.

Multi-point temperature sensing method for integrated circuit chip and system of the same

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Tainan, Taiwan

Wen-Yu Su