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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 03, 1996
Simon Anthony Segars, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
An integrated circuit 2 implementing JTAG debugging and analysis functions has an IDCODE Instruction which returns predetermined data characteristic of the integrated circuit, e.g. manufacturer, part number and version. A portion 20 of the serial test scan chain of the integrated circuit 2 is reused to load and then serially output this identifying data. The serial input of the test and debugging system is connected during such IDCODE Instructions to the start of the portion 20 of the serial test scan chain. This enables the identifying data of a plurality of integrated circuits with linked serial test scan chains to successively output their identifying data in one operation.
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