Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Integrated circuit with scan chain having dual-edge triggered scannable flip flops and method of operating thereof
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Application No.: US14566833Application Date: 2014-12-11
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Publication No.: US09599672B2Publication Date: 2017-03-21
- Inventor: Kumar Abhishek , Anurag Jindal , Nishant Madan , Mayank Tutwani
- Applicant: FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
- Current Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Main IPC: G01R31/28
- IPC: G01R31/28 ; G01R31/3185

Abstract:
An integrated circuit includes a scan chain, a clock divider circuit, and clock selection circuitry. The scan chain includes a plurality of dual edge flip flops, wherein each dual edge flip flop includes a data input, a scan input, a clock input, and data output. The clock divider circuit is coupled to receive a test clock and is configured to divide the test clock to provide a divided test clock. The clock selection circuitry has a first input coupled to receive the divided test clock, a second input coupled to receive a system clock, a control input coupled to receive a scan enable signal, and an output coupled to provide one of the divided test clock and the system clock as a clock signal to the clock inputs of the scan chain based on the scan enable signal.
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