Patent attributes
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 is used to adaptively turn individual interleaved switched-capacitor stages of a voltage converter on and off based on workload information to improve voltage conversion efficiency. Further, as a countermeasure against machine learning based differential power analysis attacks, for example, control signals provided to a number of the interleaved switched-capacitor stages are delayed to reduce the risk of low power trace entropy (PTE). A higher PTE value is maintained regardless of the phase difference between an attacker's sampling rate and the operating frequency, providing an additional layer of security.
