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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2005
Tawfik R. Arabi, Tigard, OR (US);
Gregory F. Taylor, Portland, OR (US);
Srirama Pedarla, Portland, OR (US);
Patrick Elwer, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Dan Murray, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Tawfik R. Arabi, Tigard, OR (US);
Gregory F. Taylor, Portland, OR (US);
Srirama Pedarla, Portland, OR (US);
Patrick Elwer, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Dan Murray, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments of the invention include apparatus and systems having integrated circuits. Terminals or pins of the integrated circuits are configured to be driven to a state, to be floated for a time interval, and to be measured to determine the state of the terminals after the time interval. The measurement involves sampling the RC time constant of leakage current of the terminals. Other embodiments are described and claimed.