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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:
Jun. 20, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 28, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Leo A Noel, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
324765 ; 738659 ; 738655 ; 324765 ;
Abstract
A method of dynamically modifying a test program makes testing more efficient and less costly while avoiding errors from manual operations. In one embodiment the order of functional tests in the test program is dynamically changed based on the results of testing. Tests that have caused fails are moved earlier in the testing program without having to recompile the test program. Each functional test has an initialization step to set the chip in a state from which subsequent test vectors are run.