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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2012
Veronica Alarcon, San Jose, CA (US);
Love Kothari, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Amar Guettaf, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kerry Thompson, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Veronica Alarcon, San Jose, CA (US);
Love Kothari, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Amar Guettaf, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kerry Thompson, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
An integrated circuit is disclosed that contains both a PMU and another processing portion, such as a baseband. Because of the limited pins devoted to the PMU, the PMU receives most of its signals through the other processing portion of the integrated circuit. Thus, in order to protect the PMU, the integrated circuit isolates the PMU portion from receiving different signals from the other processing portion until after certain conditions are satisfied. In addition, the integrated circuit includes a GPIO pin bank in the other processing portion that can be freely configured so as to allow for testing of the PMU.