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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 17, 1997
Jonathan F Churchill, Reading, GB;
Neil P Raftery, Guildford, GB;
Jeyakumar Shanmugam, San Jose, CA (US);
Mark A Finn, Mountain View, CA (US);
Thomas M Surrette, Saratoga, CA (US);
Cathal G Phelan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ashish Pancholy, Milipitas, CA (US);
Cypress Semiconductor Corp., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A circuit including a register coupled to a control circuit. The register has a synchronous mode of operation and an asynchronous mode of operation. The a control circuit controls whether the register operates in the synchronous mode or the asynchronous mode. The circuit may further include a scan register having scan data. The control circuit may cause the register to operate in the synchronous or asynchronous mode in response to the scan data.