ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,467, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Determining IR drop" was invented by Vidya Chhabria (Minneapolis), Yanqing Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Haoxing Ren (Austin, Texas) and Brucek Kurdo Khailany (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The IR drop for a portion of a circuit may include a voltage drop across resistance, and may include a product of current I passing through resistance with a resistance value R. In order to determine IR drop for a circuit in a more accurate and efficient manner, a neural network produces coefficient maps (that each indicate a time-varying distribution of power ...