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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2010
Lawrence M. Burns, Laguna Hills, CA (US);
Leonard Dauphinee, Irvine, CA (US);
Ramon A. Gomez, San Juan Capistrano, CA (US);
James Y. C. Chang, Irvine, CA (US);
Lawrence M. Burns, Laguna Hills, CA (US);
Leonard Dauphinee, Irvine, CA (US);
Ramon A. Gomez, San Juan Capistrano, CA (US);
James Y. C. Chang, Irvine, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A system or apparatus for monitoring an Integrated Circuit (IC) chip includes: a sense circuit at least partially constructed on the IC chip and configured to produce one or more sense signals each indicative of a corresponding process-dependent circuit parameter of the IC chip; and a digitizer module configured to produce, responsive to the one or more sense signals, one or more digitized signals each representative of a corresponding one of the sense signals. A controller is configured to determine a value of one or more of the process-dependent circuit parameters based on one or more of the digitized signals.