Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Scan chain circuit and corresponding method
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Application No.: US17665247Application Date: 2022-02-04
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Publication No.: US11747398B2Publication Date: 2023-09-05
- Inventor: Marco Casarsa
- Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
- Applicant Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
- Current Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
- Current Assignee Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Agency: SEED IP LAW GROUP LLP
- Priority: IT 2021000003536 2021.02.16
- Main IPC: G01R31/3177
- IPC: G01R31/3177 ; G01R31/3185 ; H03K3/037 ; H03K19/21

Abstract:
The disclosure relates to a scan chain circuit comprising cascaded flip-flops having a functional input node and a test input node configured to be selectively coupled to logic circuitry at a clock edge time. A clock line is provided configured to distribute one or more clock signals to the flip-flops in the chain, wherein the flip-flops in the chain have active clock edges applied thereto at respective clock edge times. The chain of flip-flops comprise a set of flip-flops configured to receive an edge inversion signal and to selectively invert their active clock edges in response to the edge inversion signal being asserted.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220263499A1 SCAN CHAIN CIRCUIT AND CORRESPONDING METHOD Public/Granted day:2022-08-18
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