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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2016
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventor:
Gary Lynn Swoboda, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 19/165 (2006.01); G01R 31/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 19/16552 (2013.01); G01R 31/2851 (2013.01);
Abstract
An integrated circuit is provided with a voltage sag detector (VSD) within the integrated circuit package. The VSD is coupled to a voltage reference and to the power distribution bus within the integrated circuit. The VSD has an output for indicating when a voltage level on the power distribution bus sags below a voltage level provided by the voltage reference.