Patent ID: 11953970
Assignee: MINIMA PROCESSOR OY
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 18:
19. Method for providing an operating voltage from a controllable voltage source with an output to an adaptive microelectronic circuit, performance of which is at least partly configurable by selecting a value of said operating voltage at said output, comprising:
regulating said operating voltage at said output into conformity with a target value using a controllable voltage source in which re-regulating said operating voltage at said output into conformity with a new, changed target value involves a time constant,
monitoring the timing of changes of digital values at a data input of a first register circuit coupled to an output of a first logic unit that precedes said first register circuit on a first processing path of said microelectronic circuit,
responding to a digital value at said data input changing later than an allowable time limit by generating a timing event observation signal, hereinafter TEO signal, wherein said allowable time limit is defined by at least one triggering edge of at least one triggering signal coupled to said first register circuit, and
using said TEO signal to trigger an increase in said operating voltage at said output faster than said time constant.