Realtek Semiconductor Inc.

Pei-Ying Hsueh

Chun-Yi Kuo

Chien-Mo Li

Sheng-Ping Yung

Ying-Yen Chen

Chih-Chieh Cheng

Kuo-Kai Liu

Sheng-ping Yung

Chieh-Chih Che

Yu-Ting Li

Po-Juei Chen

The present disclosure provides a clock control circuit and method for a circuitry. The circuitry includes a scan flip-flop circuit, an at-speed domain and a timing exception domain. The scan flip-flop circuit is configured to output data to the at-speed domain and the timing exception domain. The clock control circuit includes a first gate control circuit, a first gate circuit, a second gate control circuit and a second gate circuit. The first gate circuit is controlled by a first control signal output by the first gate control circuit, a scan enable signal and a scan mode signal to block or output a clock signal to the scan flip-flop circuit. The second gate circuit is controlled by a second control signal output by the second gate control circuit to block or output an output signal of the scan flip-flop circuit to the timing exception domain.

Clock control circuit and method

A test device is configured to test an on-chip clock controller having a debug function. The test device includes a scan chain and a test circuit. The scan chain includes N flip-flop circuit(s), each of which stores a first input signal as a storage signal, then stores a second input signal as the storage signal or keeps the current storage signal according to an input clock, and then output the storage signal. Since the first and second input signals are different, the outputted storage signal indicates whether the flip-flop circuit stores the second input signal or keeps the current storage signal according to the input clock under predetermined test setting, and indicates whether circuits under test (CUTs) for transmitting the input clock operate normally. The test circuit outputs an observation clock of the on-chip clock controller or an independent clock as the input clock according to the predetermined test setting.

Test device for testing on-chip clock controller having debug function

The present invention discloses an isolation circuit having test mechanism. An isolation circuit component performs signal transmission when a signal that a control terminal receives has an enabling state and performs signal isolation when the signal has a disabling state. The test circuit includes a multiplexer and a control circuit. Under a shifting operation state in a test mode, the control circuit controls the multiplexer to select an operation input terminal to receive and output an isolation control signal having the enabling state to the control input terminal. Under a capturing operation state in the test mode, the control circuit controls the multiplexer to select a test input terminal to receive and output the test signal to the control input terminal. The control circuit further determines whether the isolation circuit performs signal transmission or signal isolation according to the signals at the data input terminal and the data output terminal.

Isolation circuit having test mechanism and test method thereof

A chip testing method including the following operations is disclosed: outputting a plurality of testing sequences to a plurality of scan chains by an encoding circuit; generating a plurality of scan output data according to the plurality of testing sequences by the plurality of scan chains; and determining whether an error exists in the plurality of scan chains or not according to the plurality of scan output data by a decoding circuit.

Chip and testing method thereof

A chip includes one or more function input pads, a sequence generation circuit, one or more logic circuits, one or more scan chains, a selection circuit, and one or more sequence output pads. The function input pad is configured to receive a function sequence. The sequence generation circuit is configured to generate a diagnosis sequence. The logic circuit includes a plurality of logic gates, for responding to the function sequence and outputting one or more logic results. When enabled by the selection circuit, the scan chain outputs a response result in response to the logic result or a diagnosis result in response to the diagnosis sequence. The sequence output pad receives the diagnosis result when the scan chain responds to the diagnosis sequence.

Chip

A multiple defect diagnosis method includes: receiving a gate-level netlist of a chip, a plurality of test patterns and a plurality of test failure reports; deriving a plurality of seed nets from the gate-level netlist according to the plurality of test patterns and the plurality of test failure reports; utilizing a processor to compute similarity between the plurality of seed nets, and accordingly merging the plurality of seed nets to obtain a single seed net tree; and deriving at least one suspected seed net according to the single seed net tree.

Multiple defect diagnosis method and machine readable media

A systematic defect analyzing method, includes: partitioning physical sites into groups to obtain a plurality of groups of physical sites according to a plurality of physical features of a chip corresponding to different potential systematic defects; utilizing a processor to compute at least one defect probability of each group of physical sites; and deriving an analysis result according to the plurality of defect probabilities corresponding to the plurality of groups of physical sites.

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Hsinchu, Taiwan

Pei-Ying Hsueh