A system and method is disclosed that provides a digital self-adjusting
power supply for semiconductor digital circuits. The power supply
provides a substantially constant minimum supply voltage with regard to
process corner, junction temperature, external voltage source, load
variation, and operating frequency. The system comprises a slack time
detector, a voltage adjuster, and a digital pulse width modulation (PWM)
modulator. The system supplies a minimum required voltage without the
used of a band gap or reference voltage. A finite state machine is also
used to minimize oscillations introduced by start-up, load transients,
frequency changes, and the like, thereby eliminating the need for a
proportional integrator differentiator (PID) circuit.