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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2022
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Harold Pilo, Underhill, VT (US);
Shishir Kumar, Uttar Pradesh, IN;
Synopsys, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of using on-chip circuitry to test a memory of a chip is provided. The method including, in a capture stage, receiving, at a first n-bit compression structure including n first stage latches corresponding to each bit of the first n-bit compression structure, a value at each respective first stage latch for each of n memory addresses of the memory, such that each respective first stage latch receives a respective value from a memory address of the memory, n being an integer greater than one, and in the capture stage, passing the values from each respective first stage latch through compression logic of the first n-bit compression structure to output a single compressed address value, providing the single compressed address value to a second stage latch of the first n-bit compression structure.