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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. 09, 1999

Filed:

Dec. 13, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:

Christopher McCall Durham, Austin, TX (US);

Peter Juergen Klim, Austin, TX (US);

Srinivas Patil, Austin, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
371 225 ; 326 93 ;
Abstract

From a first circuit, first information is output in response to acknowledgement signals. From a second circuit, second information and the acknowledgement signals are output. The second information and the acknowledgement signals are output in response to the second circuit receiving portions of the first information from the first circuit during a functional mode of operation. The portions and the acknowledgement signals are output asynchronously with respect to one another. From a third circuit, third information is output in response to the second information. From a test circuit, the second information output from the second circuit is specified, so that the third circuit outputs the third information in response to the specified second information independent of the first information output from the first circuit during a test mode of operation.


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