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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:
Feb. 24, 1998

Filed:

Jan. 23, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:

Kab-ju Moon, Kyungki-do, KR;

Seong-rae Cho, Kyungki-do, KR;

Hyuk-sang Kwon, Seoul, KR;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
371 223 ; 364556 ;
Abstract

A flip-flop controller including a clock controller for enabling or disabling a clock signal in response to a clock enabling signal and one or more flip-flops for selectively latching a function mode signal or scan test mode signal in response to a mode selection signal while being synchronous with the clock signal, is provided. As a result, a test vector is easily generated, fault coverage is increased to a desired degree using relatively few test vectors. Also, power consumption can be reduced by disabling the unnecessary portion of the clock signal applied to the flip-flop.


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