发明名称 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING LOAD CURRENT BY APPLYING COMPENSATED GAIN TO VOLTAGE DERIVED FROM DRAIN-TO-SOURCE VOLTAGE OF POWER GATING DEVICE
摘要 Apparatus and method are disclosed for measuring a load current supplied to one or more integrated circuit cores. The apparatus includes a power gating field effect transistor (FET) comprising a gate, a source, and a drain, wherein the source is coupled to a voltage rail, wherein the drain is coupled to a load, and wherein the gate is configured to receive a gating voltage to selectively turn on the power gating FET to allow a load current to flow between the voltage rail and the load; and a differential amplifier configured to generate a current-related voltage related to the load current by applying a gain to an input voltage based on a drain-to-source voltage of the power gating FET, wherein the gain varies inversely with the input voltage in response to variation in temperature or gate-to-source voltage of the power gating FET.
申请公布号 WO2017007566(A1) 申请公布日期 2017.01.12
申请号 WO2016US36512 申请日期 2016.06.08
申请人 QUALCOMM INCORPORATED 发明人 NIX, Michael Arn
分类号 G01R19/00 主分类号 G01R19/00
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