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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:
Sep. 08, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 21, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gary L Swoboda, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Nicholas K Ing-Simmons, Bedford, GB;
Richard David Simpson, Carlton, GB;
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
39518304 ; 39518301 ;
Abstract
An electronic device having addressable storage elements and a bus so that the storage elements are accessible via the bus, an address register connected to the bus, a data register connected to the bus, terminals for serial scan-in and scan-out, a scanable emulation control register coupled to the terminals, and a selecting circuit responsive to bits in the emulation control register for coupling the address register and the data register to the terminals to enable scanning of the address and data registers.