US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices, ATI Technologies on April 15 for "Droop detection and control of digital frequency-locked loop" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,638, issued on April 15, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Droop detection and control of digital frequency-locked loop" was invented by Kaushik Mazumdar (Waltham, Mass.), Ashish Jain (Austin, Texas), Joyce Cheuk Wai Wong (Toronto) and Mikhail Rodionov (Richmond Hill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a power supply monitor, a clock generator, and a divider. The power supply monitor is operable to provide a trigger signal in response to a power supply voltage dropping below a threshold voltage. The clock generator is operabl...