Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Functional testing of an integrated circuit chip
- Patent Title (中): 集成电路芯片的功能测试
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Application No.: US14251044Application Date: 2014-04-11
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Publication No.: US09188638B2Publication Date: 2015-11-17
- Inventor: Andrew Brian Thomas Hopkins , Iain Craig Robertson , Michael Jonathan Thyer
- Applicant: UltraSoC Technologies Ltd
- Applicant Address: GB Cambridge
- Assignee: UltraSoC Technologies Ltd.
- Current Assignee: UltraSoC Technologies Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: GB Cambridge
- Agency: Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP
- Agent Vincent M DeLuca
- Priority: GB1402392.3 20140212
- Main IPC: G01R31/317
- IPC: G01R31/317 ; G01R31/3177

Abstract:
A method of functionality testing system circuitry on an integrated circuit chip, the system circuitry comprising a plurality of sub-circuits and the integrated circuit chip further comprising debugging circuitry, the debugging circuitry comprising variability circuitry. The method comprises: at the system circuitry, performing a function by the sub-circuits performing concurrent actions; at the variability circuitry, altering relative timing of the concurrent actions so as to increase the likelihood of one or more errors in the system circuitry's performance of the function; and at the debugging circuitry, recording one or more errors in the system circuitry's performance of the function.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150226801A1 Functional Testing of an Integrated Circuit Chip Public/Granted day:2015-08-13
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