ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,310, issued on May 12, was assigned to Marvel Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).
"AVS architecture for SAR ADC" was invented by Benjamin Tomas Reyes (Cordoba, Argentina), Gabriele Minoia (Milan) and Ray Luan Nguyen (Fountain Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Integrated Circuit (IC) includes one or more functional circuits of a given type, a test circuit including a selected one of the functional circuits or a replica circuit of the same type as the functional circuits, and an Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS) circuit. The AVS circuit is configured to determine a delay of the test circuit, and to adjust a supply voltage of the funct...