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Semiconductor integrated circuit apparatus, measurement result management system, and management server
Makoto Takamiya,Masayuki Mizuno +1 more
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In this paper, a measurement circuit which measures a physical factor that exerts an influence upon the actual operation of a semiconductor integrated circuit is presented, such as jitter or noise jitter, and noise of an identical chip.Abstract:
A semiconductor integrated circuit apparatus, and more particularly a technology for measuring and managing a physical amount of factors that exert an influence upon an operation of a semiconductor integrated circuit is provided; more particularly, a semiconductor integrated circuit that is an object of measurement, and a measurement circuit which measures a physical factor that exerts an influence upon the actual operation of the semiconductor integrated circuit, such as jitter or noise jitter, and noise of this semiconductor integrated circuit are provided on an identical chip; also, a measurement result of the measurement circuit of the present invention is analyzed, and is fed back to a circuit for adjusting the semiconductor integrated circuit that is the object of measurement.read more
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