Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Self-test circuit in integrated circuit, and data processing circuit
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Application No.: US15188288Application Date: 2016-06-21
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Publication No.: US09989590B2Publication Date: 2018-06-05
- Inventor: Shigeru Uekusa
- Applicant: Shigeru Uekusa
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Cooper & Dunham LLP
- Priority: JP2015-133726 20150702
- Main IPC: G01R31/317
- IPC: G01R31/317 ; G01R31/3187

Abstract:
A self-test circuit is driven by a multiphase clock signal which includes N number of clock signals in same cycle having phases from first to N-th phases each phase-shifted by 1/N of the cycle. The self-test circuit includes a data selecting circuit, a serialization circuit, and a logical test circuit. The data selecting circuit switches input data that are input as M-bit wide parallel data to the self-test circuit, between normal data and test data for logical test. The serialization circuit performs serial conversion of the input data in N-parallel manner and outputs bits in N-parallel manner, as a single serial output signal at timing corresponding to each phase. In synchronization with timing corresponding to each phase, the logical test circuit imports the serial output signal as N-parallel bit strings each having length equal to M/N number of bits and performs a bit logical test for M number of bits.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170003344A1 SELF-TEST CIRCUIT IN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND DATA PROCESSING CIRCUIT Public/Granted day:2017-01-05
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