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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 1995
Filed:
Jun. 05, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Martin J Bell, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Muhammad A Samad, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
VLSI Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
371 226 ; 371 221 ; 371 223 ;
Abstract
A system for generating configurations for isolation circuits that can be designed into ASIC chips such that the isolation circuits are transparent during normal operation of the host chip but allow the embedded functional blocks to be readily isolated and accessed for testing via the host chip's pads.