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Process monitor for monitoring an integrated circuit chip
   
Document Number
US Patent 7309998
Issued Date
December 18, 2007
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Gomez; Ramon A. (San Juan Capistrano, CA)
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A system or apparatus for monitoring an Integrated Circuit (IC) chip, comprises: a sense circuit at least partially constructed on the IC chip and configured to produce one or more sense signals each indicative of a corresponding process-dependent circuit parameter of the IC chip; and a digitizer module configured to produce, responsive to the one or more sense signals, one or more digitized signals each representative of a corresponding one of the sense signals. A controller is configured to determine a value of one or more of the process-dependent circuit parameters based on one or more of the digitized signals.
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Published
December 18, 2007
Application Number
10/440,311
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May 19, 2003
US Classification
324/765   257/E21.525 324/158.1 348/E5.106 348/E5.115 348/E7.052 714/724
Int'l Classification
G01R   31/02   (20060101)  
Parent Case
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/430,061, entitled "Amplifier Assembly with AGC for a Tuner," filed Dec. 2, 2002, incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
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A system or apparatus for monitoring an Integrated Circuit (IC) chip includes: a sense circuit at least partially constructed on the IC chip and configured to produce one or more sense signals each indicative of a corresponding process-dependent circuit parameter of the IC chip; and a digitizer module configured to produce, responsive to the one or more sense signals, one or more digitized signals each representative of a corresponding one of the sense signals. A controller is configured to determine a value of one or more of the process-dependent circuit parameters based on one or more of the digitized signals.

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