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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2014
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Burt Lee Price, Apex, NC (US);
Yeshwant Nagaraj Kolla, Wake Forest, NC (US);
Dhaval Rajeshbhai Shah, Raleigh, NC (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Distributed voltage network circuits employing voltage averaging, and related systems and methods are disclosed. In one aspect, because voltage in one area of a distributed load circuit may vary from voltage in a second area, a distributed voltage network circuit is configured to tap voltages from multiple areas to calculate average voltage in the distributed load circuit. The distributed voltage network circuit includes a voltage distribution source component having source nodes. Voltage is distributed from each source node to a corresponding voltage load node via resistive interconnects. Voltage tap nodes access voltage from each corresponding voltage load node. Each voltage tap node is coupled to an input node of a corresponding resistive element in voltage averaging circuit. An output node of each resistive element is coupled to a voltage output node of the voltage averaging circuit, generating the average voltage of the distributed load circuit on the voltage output node.