Document Type
Patent
Publication Date
11-7-2017
Patent Number
9812954
CPC
H02M 3/07 (20130101)
Abstract
Dynamic power management techniques and voltage converter architectures are described to provide a secure and efficient on-chip power delivery system. In aspects of the embodiments, converter-gating adaptively turns on and off individual stages of an interleaved switched-capacitor voltage converter based on workload information to improve voltage conversion efficiency. Converter-gating is further utilized as a countermeasure against side channel power analysis attacks by pseudo-randomly controlling converter activity. The embodiments also improve the response time of converters during transient load changes by adaptively configuring the conversion ratio of a switched capacitor (SC) voltage converter.
Application Number
14/788,027
Recommended Citation
Kose, Selcuk and Uzun, Orhun Aras, "Secure converter-gating, reconfiguration, and regulation" (2017). USF Patents. 937.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/usf_patents/937
Assignees
University of South Florida
Filing Date
2015-06-30
