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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 17, 2013
Applicant:

Mentor Graphics Corporation, Wilsonville, OR (US);

Inventors:

Janusz Rajski, West Linn, OR (US);

Jedrzej Solecki, Poznan, PL;

Jerzy Tyszer, Poznan, PL;

Grzegorz Mrugalski, Swardzez, PL;

Assignee:

Mentor Graphics Corporation, Wilsonville, OR (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/3185 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/318575 (2013.01); G01R 31/318547 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various aspects of the present invention relate to scan chain stitching techniques for test-per-clock. With various implementations of the invention, a plurality of scan cell partitions are generated based on combinational paths between scan cells. Scan cells may be assigned to one or more pairs of scan cell partitions based on combinational paths between the scan cells. Each pair of the scan cell partitions comprises one stimuli partition and one compacting partition. Using the plurality of scan cell partitions generated, scan chains are formed based on at least information of combinational paths between scan cell partitions in the plurality of scan cell partitions. The formed scan chains are to be dynamically divided into three groups during a test, which are configured to operate in a shifting-launching mode, a capturing-compacting-shifting mode and a mission mode, respectively.


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