US Patent Issued to Synopsys on Nov. 11 for "In situ delay measurements on integrated circuits using live data and pulse width modulation" (Armenian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,527, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"In situ delay measurements on integrated circuits using live data and pulse width modulation" was invented by Karen Darbinyan (Pleasanton, Calif.), Yervant Zorian (Santa Clara, Calif.), Grigor Khachatryan (Yerevan, Armenia) and Karen Melkonyan (Ararat, Armenia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes delay monitors that monitor the delays of data signals from the digital circuitry by generating pulses having widths determined by the delays. In some embodiments, the delay monitor is implemented as a digital circuit that includes a pulse ge...