US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices, ATI Technologies on Nov. 4 for "Time domain-based power supply droop detector" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,622, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Time domain-based power supply droop detector" was invented by Mikhail Rodionov (Markham, Canada), Dirk J. Robinson (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Joyce Cheuk Wai Wong (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed device includes a reference delay circuit for outputting a reference delay circuit output signal from a voltage regulated supply and a noisy delay circuit for outputting a noisy delay circuit output signal from a noisy or droopy supply. The device also includes a phase comparator ci...