Integrated Droop Response System

Overview

Industry 1st Integrated Turnkey Solution for Droop and DVFS Response

Enabling Silicon Monitoring and Health Analytics with Precise Run-Time Droop Response Data

The Aeonic Integrated Droop Response System revolutionizes the way we respond to droop in complex integrated circuits. This innovative solution is designed to simultaneously mitigate voltage droop and enable fine-grained DVFS capability in an integrated turnkey solution, resulting in significant power savings for SoCs.

It also includes extensive observability features that provides valuable insight for modern silicon health and lifecycle management systems. With its fast adaptation time, multi-threshold droop detection, remote/local droop detection support, APB & JTAG interfaces, this system helps architects manage droop and DVFS while generating actionable insights for silicon health and analytics platforms.

Key Features

  • Observable
    • IP that generates rich outbound date
    • Common interfaces for silicon health and analytics management
    • Programmable to adapt to silicon variation
  • Tightly Coupled
    • Tightly coupled detector and adaptive clock for fastest total (detect + respond) adaptation time
    • Can reduce system power by >10%
    • Supports local and remote droop detection and response
  • Process Portable
    • Features that reliably port and scale from node-to-node
    • Long-term R&D leverage
    • Scales with process technology

Benefits

  • Aeonic digital IP modules are silicon-proven across leading foundries, including TSMC, Intel, Global Foundries, and UMC, and are in use across multiple high-volume products.

Technical Specifications

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GLOBALFOUNDRIES
Pre-Silicon: 12nm , 14nm , 14nm LPE , 14nm LPP , 20nm LPM , 22nm , 22nm FDX , 28nm , 28nm FDSOI , 28nm HPP , 28nm LPH , 28nm SLP
Silicon Proven: 12nm
Intel Foundry
Pre-Silicon: 18A , 3nm , 16nm
Samsung
Pre-Silicon: 4nm , 5nm , 7nm , 8nm , 10nm , 14nm
TSMC
Pre-Silicon: 3nm , 4nm , 5nm , 6nm , 7nm , 10nm , 12nm , 16nm , 20nm , 22nm , 28nm , 28nm HP , 28nm HPC , 28nm HPCP , 28nm HPL , 28nm HPM , 28nm LP
UMC
Pre-Silicon: 14nm
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