US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Aug. 25 for "Clock stretching circuit for minimum operating voltage improvement" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,462, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Clock stretching circuit for minimum operating voltage improvement" was invented by Kaushik Viswanathan (Austin, Texas), Daniel Rodriguez (Dublin, Calif.) and Tezaswi Raja (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuits for mitigating noise and droop on supply rails that utilize a clock stretcher that includes a chain of adjustable delay elements configured to generate multiple phases of the first clock signal. The circuits are configured to select from among the phases of the first clock signal to form a second clock signal that is a stretched, gl...