Full-path circuit delay measurement device for field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and measurement method
US11762015B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 22, 2021 |
| Grant date | Sep 19, 2023 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 22, 2041 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02D10/00
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A full-path circuit delay measurement device for a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and a measurement method are provided. The measurement device includes two shadow registers and a phase-shifted clock, where the two shadow registers take an output of a measured combinational logic circuit as a clock and sample the phase-shifted clock SCLK as data; the two shadow registers are respectively triggered on rising and falling edges of the output of the measured combinational logic circuit to sample the phase-shifted clock; outputs of the two shadow registers are delivered by an OR gate as an input into a synchronization register; a clock of the synchronization register serves as a clock MCLK of the measured combinational logic circuit; an output of the synchronization register serves as that of the circuit delay measurement device; the phase-shifted clock SCLK and the clock MCLK of the measured combinational logic circuit have the same frequency.
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