The application relates to the technical field of integrated circuits, and provides a
chip control circuit and method for adaptive
frequency modulation and
voltage modulation, which comprises a timing monitoring module, a critical path replication submodule and a
daisy chain delay submodule connected to the timing monitoring module, the critical path replication submodule is used for simulating an actual critical
data path in a
chip, the
daisy chain delay submodule is used for applying a configurable
delay amount on the timing of an output
data signal, so as to simulate the timing performance after different time points, a first flip-flop is used for transmitting the
data signal, a sampling flip-flop module is used for sampling the
data signal output by the timing monitoring module, a comparison
logic module is used for generating a multi-bit
timing margin indication code through a comparison result, and the
timing margin indication code is used for adaptively adjusting the working frequency or working
voltage of the
chip. Through accurate monitoring and adaptive adjustment of the timing of the chip, all design margins can be utilized, the energy utilization efficiency is improved, and therefore, the ultimate low
power consumption is realized.