Patents by Inventor Andy Chamas

Andy Chamas has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11131711
    Abstract: In-chip decoupling capacitor circuits refer to decoupling capacitors (DCAPs) that are placed on a chip. These DCAPs are generally used to manage power supply noise for the chip, and can be utilized individually or as a distributed system. In some cases, DCAPs may make up a significant portion of the chip. Unfortunately, defects in DCAPs will degrade over time, will encroach into active logic, and will further cause automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) failure. To date, there has been a lack of structural test coverage for DCAP circuits, which reduces test coverage of the chip as a whole. To this end, defects on the chip as they relate to DCAPs (i.e. shorts in the DCAP) may not be detected. The present disclosure provides a structural test system and method for DCAPs and other passive logic components located on-chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Krishnamraju Kurra, Gunaseelan Ponnuvel, Divyesh Shah, Abhishek Akkur, Kartik Joshi, Tezaswi Raja, Andy Chamas