Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Scan test circuitry configured to prevent capture of potentially non-deterministic values
- Patent Title (中): 扫描测试电路配置为防止捕获潜在的非确定性值
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Application No.: US13560297Application Date: 2012-07-27
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Publication No.: US08700962B2Publication Date: 2014-04-15
- Inventor: Ramesh C. Tekumalla , Prakash Krishnamoorthy
- Applicant: Ramesh C. Tekumalla , Prakash Krishnamoorthy
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: LSI Corporation
- Current Assignee: LSI Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP
- Main IPC: G01R31/28
- IPC: G01R31/28

Abstract:
An integrated circuit comprises scan test circuitry and additional circuitry subject to testing utilizing the scan test circuitry. The scan test circuitry comprises at least one scan chain having scan cells. The scan test circuitry is configured to control at least a given one of the scan cells so as to prevent the scan cell from capturing a potentially non-deterministic value from a portion of the additional circuitry. The portion of the additional circuitry that provides the potentially non-deterministic value may comprise, for example, at least one of a mixed signal logic block and a memory block of the additional circuitry. The given scan cell may be controlled by configuring the scan cell such that it is unable to capture data in a scan capture mode of operation in which it would otherwise normally be able to capture data.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140032985A1 SCAN TEST CIRCUITRY CONFIGURED TO PREVENT CAPTURE OF POTENTIALLY NON-DETERMINISTIC VALUES Public/Granted day:2014-01-30
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