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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2017
Southeast University, Nanjing, CN;
Weiwei Shan, Nanjing, CN;
Wentao Dai, Nanjing, CN;
Jun Yang, Nanjing, CN;
Longxing Shi, Nanjing, CN;
Southeast University, Nanjing, CN;
Abstract
An online monitoring unit and a control circuit for ultra-wide voltage range applications are disclosed. Compared with a conventional online monitoring unit, present invention eliminates a need to reserve delay units, replaces flip-flops in the conventional online monitoring unit with a latch, and uses a transition detector with fewer transistors than that of a shadow latch in the conventional online monitoring unit, thereby reducing an area and a power consumption of the online monitoring unit significantly and improving an energy efficiency of online monitoring techniques. In addition, in the ultra-wide voltage range applications, a time borrowing property of the latch adopted by the present invention can be utilized to prevent a timing error caused by process-voltage-temperature (PVT) variations, thus enabling a minimization of a timing margin and ensuring a higher power efficiency. The present invention also discloses a control circuit for use with the online monitoring unit.