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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:
Apr. 04, 1995

Filed:

Oct. 20, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:

Daniel G Dosch, Severn, MD (US);

Otis A Bundy, Sykesville, MD (US);

Robert Whyms, III, Ellicott City, MD (US);

Assignee:

Other;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
371 221 ; 364D / ; 3649218 ; 364949 ; 371 161 ; 371 225 ; 395700 ;
Abstract

A method is provided for overcoming the slow speed of accessing machine state information from a device under test using boundary scan technology. The method minimizes the total number of words sent over the lengthy communications path by filtering out intermediary data. The method enables transfers of results to take place while other boundary scan circuitry commands are executing. Firmware is provided that transforms a boundary scan circuitry controller into a debug controller. Building the debug functions into the system makes it possible to have debug capability from module level integration all the way to system level integration.


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