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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 22, 1996
Sandip Kundu, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method is providing for sorting integrated circuits based upon their maximum operating frequency. More particularly, the incremental time required for a test signal to be flushed through a level sensitive scan design (LSSD) circuit is measured. The test method of the present invention measures scan flush delay in the integrated circuit in order to measure the frequency of the circuit. A free running reference clock and on-chip counter are used measure the flush delay time period. With this information a count/second parameter can be determined, indicating the speed at which the test bit is flushed through the scan chain. The lower the value of the parameter, the higher the operating frequency of the chip.