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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2010
Miodrag Potkonjak, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Miodrag Potkonjak, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Empire Technology Development LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
Embodiments for aging-based usage metering of components of an IC are described herein. In various embodiments, the IC may include various components and an aging-based usage metering circuit for metering usage of the components. The components may include respective associated usage vectors that are different from one another, whereas the usage metering circuit may include circuit elements coupled to each other, forming different processing paths for processing the different usage vectors. Additionally, the components may be configured to respectively transmit their different associated usage vectors to the usage metering circuit whenever the respectively components are used. And the usage metering circuit may be configured to process the usage vectors. Further, the circuit elements of the usage metering circuit may age over time as a result of the processing, enabling usage of the components be determined based on their aging. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.