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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2013
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Madan Krishnappa, San Diego, CA (US);
Stephen Simmonds, San Diego, CA (US);
Parag Arun Agashe, San Diego, CA (US);
Sajjad Pagarkar, San Diego, CA (US);
Ashwin Rabindranath, San Diego, CA (US);
Sagar Digwalekar, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
An integrated circuit (IC) includes an adaptive voltage scaling (AVS) controller configured to control a voltage supplied to a portion of the IC and at least one sensor configured to sense at least one state of the IC and to provide an output signal indicative of the at least one sensed state to the AVS controller, the IC having a first setting and a second setting, the AVS controller being configured to use the output signal to control the voltage in the first setting and the AVS controller being configured to control the voltage independently of the output signal in the second setting. Also a method of performing AVS is provided.