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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2013
Applicant:
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Inventor:
Rafael Carmon, Rishon Lezion, IL;
Assignee:
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/04 (2006.01); G01R 31/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/2851 (2013.01);
Abstract
Chip instrumentation determines, in-situ, an allowable increase over product specification in the operating frequency of at least one clock domain in an integrated circuit for a given set of environmental, power supply and/or functionality constraints. Information on the allowable increase in operating frequency for the at least one clock domain is provided to circuits and/or software to effect change in operating frequency.