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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2017

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2016
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Clark Vandam, Hilsboro, OR (US);

Suriya Kumar, Portland, OR (US);

Suraj Sindia, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Ricardo Ascazubi, Portland, OR (US);

Curtis Shirota, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 19/003 (2006.01); H02M 1/32 (2007.01); H02M 1/36 (2007.01); G11C 5/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 1/32 (2013.01); H02M 1/36 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for latch-up detection and mitigation. One aspect includes a method implemented in a system divided into a plurality of power blocks, where each power block is powered by a corresponding power rail and includes a voltage droop monitoring circuitry. The method comprises receiving frequency information from the plurality of voltage droop monitoring circuitries; normalizing the received frequency information from each of the plurality of voltage droop monitoring circuitries; creating a matrix of cross-correlation values based on the normalized frequency information between each pair of the plurality of power blocks; determining deviations in the cross-correlation values indicating an occurrence of voltage droop; determining an abnormal variation based on the determined deviations to identify a first power block, out of the plurality of power blocks, experiencing a latch-up event; and resetting power to the first power block without interrupting power to rest of the plurality of power blocks.


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