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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2015
Applicant:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Gobinathan Athimolom, Sungai Petani, MY;
Michael Rothberg, Foothill Ranch, CA (US);
Assignee:
WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/3185 (2006.01); G06F 11/27 (2006.01); G11C 29/06 (2006.01); G11C 29/32 (2006.01); G11C 29/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/318597 (2013.01); G01R 31/318577 (2013.01); G06F 11/27 (2013.01); G11C 29/32 (2013.01); G11C 29/56 (2013.01); G11C 29/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method are provided for boundary scan testing one or more digital data storage drives. In particular, a drive tester system connects to the one or more digital data storage drives via a standard two-wire interface, such as a system management bus (SMBus) interface. The drive tester system performs a boundary scan test on the on more digital data storage drives via the standard two-wire interface. The boundary scan test may include a vector test.