Frequency monitoring circuitry with voltage conversion
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsArunvenkatesh Alagappan, Soheil Golara, Seyedeh Sedigheh Hashemi
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AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsArunvenkatesh Alagappan, Soheil Golara, Seyedeh Sedigheh Hashemi
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An integrated circuit can include frequency monitoring circuitry. The frequency monitoring circuitry may include a voltage based frequency monitoring circuit for monitoring an input clock signal having an input clock frequency within a first set of frequencies and a coarse frequency monitoring circuit for monitoring an input clock signal having an input clock frequency within a second set of frequencies different than the first set of frequencies. The voltage based frequency monitoring circuit can be configured to generate an output voltage having a first value when the input clock frequency is greater than a reference frequency and having a second value when the input clock frequency is less than the reference frequency. The coarse frequency monitoring circuit can include a reference counter and an input clock counter that generates a count value used to compute the input clock frequency.
Frequency monitoring circuitry comprising:
Circuitry comprising:
Frequency monitoring circuitry comprising:
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