A process corner indicator circuit can be included with each die formed
from a silicon wafer in order to quickly and easily give a determination
of process corner. A clock generator circuit of the indicator circuit can
include an array of flip-flop elements, and can be run at a lower
operating voltage, such that the differences in delay in the generated
timing signal are accentuated for different process corners. The period
of the timing signal can be determined using slow and fast clock
counters, with the slow clock counting a number of cycles of the timing
signal and the fast clock counting a number of cycles of a fixed
frequency. The count produced by the fast clock can correspond to the
delay in the clock generator circuit, giving an indication of the process
corner of the die.