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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 1981
Filed:
Jul. 26, 1979
David J Brown, North Baddesley, GB;
Ronald G Walther, Raleigh, NC (US);
Thomas W Williams, Longmont, CO (US);
Michael D Wrigglesworth, Pembroke Park, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A shift register latch circuit (FIG. 1) comprised of a polarity hold latch 1 connected to a set/reset latch 2. The latches can be clocked with separate non-overlapping clock trains (+A, +B and +C) so that automatically generated test patterns can be applied to a scan input S to test the circuit. This conforms to the so-called Level Sensitive Scan Design (LSSD) rules. During system operation, the shift register latch circuit operates as a `D` type edge trigger by connecting the clock input +B of the set/reset latch 2 to the clock -C supplied to the polarity hold latch 1. By connecting a number of shift register latches together a Johnson counter can be formed and by clocking all latches with a single oscillator, a series of non-overlapping clock trains can be produced. Implementations of the shift register latch in AND circuits or AND OR INVERT circuits are described.