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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2013
Applicant:
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Samuel Richard Duell, San Jose, CA (US);
Gabriele Gorla, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yaoshun Jia, Milpitas, CA (US);
Qi Lin, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrew Bell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 1/00 (2006.01); H02J 3/00 (2006.01); H02J 3/46 (2006.01); H02J 4/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 3/46 (2013.01); H02J 4/00 (2013.01); G06F 1/26 (2013.01); Y10T 307/696 (2015.04);
Abstract
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for merging two or more supply rails into a merged supply rail. The method comprises receiving two or more current measurement signals associated with two or more supply rails, selecting one supply rail from the two or more supply rails, based on the current measurement signals, and enabling the selected supply rail to source current into a merged supply rail.