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Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2025

Filed:

Feb. 16, 2023
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Fnu Rajeev Kumar, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Chandan Shantharaj, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/3185 (2005.12); G01R 31/3177 (2005.12);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/318536 (2012.12); G01R 31/3177 (2012.12); G01R 31/318541 (2012.12); G01R 31/318552 (2012.12); G01R 31/318572 (2012.12);
Abstract

An Integrated Circuit (IC) includes a storage element and control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to select, responsively to a scan-enable control, between a functional-data input and a scan-data input to serve as an input to the storage element, to selectively disable toggling of an output of the storage element, responsively to a clock-enable control, by gating a clock signal provided to the storage element, and, while the clock-enable control indicates that the output of the storage element is to be disabled from toggling, to select the input of the storage element to be the scan-data input.


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