PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16397630
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["327", "394000"]

Abstract:
Apparatuses and methods for temperature and process corner sensitive control of power gated domains are described. An example apparatus includes an internal circuit; a power supply line; and a power gating control circuit which responds, at least in part, to a first change from a first state to a second state of a control signal to initiate supplying a power supply voltage from the power supply line to the internal circuit, and continue supplying the power supply voltage from the power supply line to internal circuit for at least a timeout period from a second change from the second state to the first state of the control signal, in which the timeout period represent temperature dependency.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus comprising:\n a control signal input configured to receive an enable signal; a first switch configured to couple a power gated circuit to at least one of a first supply voltage or a second supply voltage; and a timeout circuit coupled to the first switch, the timeout circuit comprising:\n a second switch coupled to the control signal input, wherein responsive to the enable signal being at a first logic level, the second switch is configured to disconnect a monitor node from one of the first supply voltage or the second supply voltage, \n a leakage monitor coupled to the monitor node, wherein the leakage monitor is configured to exhibit a same process corner and model subthreshold leakage as in the power gated circuit corresponding to a defined temperature of the power gated circuit, and \n an output logic coupled to the monitor node and configured to deactivate the first switch when the enable signal is at the first logic level and a voltage at the monitor node crosses a trigger voltage of the output logic.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43137
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15251908', '10835501', '10840708', '11298018', '13281722']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7473200098702872
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5053583849747948
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.723123847380738
- Mean Citation Score: 173.42418600000005
- Max Citation Score: 318.612
- Similarity Product: 301.418795850277

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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