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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. 27, 2001

Filed:

Sep. 02, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

Steven Michael Douskey, Rochester, MN (US);

Paul Allen Ganfield, Rochester, MN (US);

Daniel Guy Young, Rochester, MN (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 3/128 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 3/128 ;
Abstract

A boundary configuration (Common Input/output CIO) for Generalized Scan Designs (GSD) in a single clock chip design includes at least one generalized scan design internal latch; a boundary scan clock input to the internal latch; an input/output cell connected to the internal latch; and at least one control line between the internal latch and the input/output cell. The CIO GSD is arranged and configured to operate in various modes including a function mode, a RUNBIST/INTEST/LBIST mode, an EXTEST/WIRETEST mode, a SAMPLE/PRELOAD mode, etc. In a different version, a MUX controller is connected to the internal latch. The MUX controller selects data from one of at least two control lines and sending the selected data to at least one internal logic unit of the chip for a test operation.


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