Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for at-speed scan shift frequency test optimization
-
Application No.: US14438234Application Date: 2012-10-30
-
Publication No.: US10746795B2Publication Date: 2020-08-18
- Inventor: Sergey Sofer , Asher Berkovitz , Michael Priel
- Applicant: Sergey Sofer , Asher Berkovitz , Michael Priel
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
- Current Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- International Application: PCT/IB2012/056019 WO 20121030
- International Announcement: WO2014/068368 WO 20140508
- Main IPC: G01R31/3177
- IPC: G01R31/3177 ; G01R31/3185 ; G01R31/28

Abstract:
There is provided an integrated circuit comprising at least one logic path, comprising a plurality of sequential logic elements operably coupled into a scan chain to form at least one scan chain under test, at least one IR drop sensor operably coupled to the integrated circuit power supply, operable to output a first logic state when a sensed supply voltage is below a first predefined value and to output a second logic state when the sensed supply voltage is above the first predefined value, at least one memory buffer operably coupled to a scan test data load-in input and a scan test data output of the at least one scan chain under test, and control logic operable to gate logic activity including the scan shift operation inside the integrated circuit for a single cycle when the at least one IR drop sensor outputs the first logic state and to allow normal scan test flow when the at least one IR drop sensor outputs the second logic state. There is also provided an associated method of performing at-speed scan testing of an integrated circuit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150276869A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AT-SPEED SCAN SHIFT FREQUENCY TEST OPTIMIZATION Public/Granted day:2015-10-01
Information query