Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Addressable tap domain selection circuit, interface select and instruction circuitry
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Application No.: US14925536Application Date: 2015-10-28
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Publication No.: US09599668B2Publication Date: 2017-03-21
- Inventor: Lee D. Whetsel
- Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US TX Dallas
- Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Current Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Dallas
- Agent Lawrence J. Bassuk; Charles A. Brill; Frank D. Cimino
- Main IPC: G01R31/3177
- IPC: G01R31/3177 ; G01R31/3185

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
- US20160047860A1 REDUCED SIGNALING INTERFACE METHOD & APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2016-02-18
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