ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,698, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems and methods to reduce voltage guardband" was invented by Mahesh K. Kumashikar (Bangalore, India), Md Altaf Hossain (Portland, Ore.), Mahesh A. Iyer (Fremont, Calif.), Yuet Li (Fremont, Calif.), Atul Maheshwari (Portland, Ore.) and Ankireddy Nalamalpu (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems or methods of the present disclosure may provide efficient power consumption for programmable logic devices based on reducing guardband voltages. A programmable logic device may include circuit monitors to mimic critical paths of an implemented circuit de...