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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2014
Applicant:
Globalfoundries Inc., Grand Cayman, KY;
Inventors:
Assignee:
GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc., Grand Cayman, KY;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/00 (2006.01); G01R 31/40 (2014.01); G06F 1/26 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/40 (2013.01); G06F 1/26 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method is provided for determining a power noise histogram of a computer system. The computer system includes a skitter circuit with multiple skitter bins, each skitter bin of the multiple skitter bins being connected to a signal line at one or more clock cycles. The method includes: connecting each skitter bin to an individual counter circuit; and incrementing a counter when the respective skitter bin is enabled.