Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Reduced signaling interface method and apparatus
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Application No.: US12840928Application Date: 2010-07-21
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Publication No.: US07890829B2Publication Date: 2011-02-15
- Inventor: Lee D. Whetsel
- Applicant: Lee D. Whetsel
- Applicant Address: US TX Dallas
- Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Current Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Dallas
- Agent Lawrence J. Bassuk; W. James Brady; Frederick J. Telecky, Jr.
- Main IPC: G01R31/28
- IPC: G01R31/28

Abstract:
This disclosure describes a reduced pin bus that can be used on integrated circuits or embedded cores within integrated circuits. The bus may be used for serial access to circuits where the availability of pins on ICs or terminals on cores is limited. The bus may be used for a variety of serial communication operations such as, but not limited to, serial communication related test, emulation, debug, and/or trace operations of an IC or core design. Other aspects of the disclosure include the use of reduced pin buses for emulation, debug, and trace operations and for functional operations. In a fifth aspect of the present disclosure, an interface select circuit, FIGS. 41-49, provides for selectively using either the 5 signal interface of FIG. 41 or the 3 signal interface of FIG. 8.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100287431A1 REDUCED SIGNALING INTERFACE METHOD AND APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2010-11-11
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