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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2000
Mitsuyasu Ohta, Osaka, JP;
Toshinori Hosokawa, Osaka, JP;
Sadami Takeoka, Osaka, JP;
Osamu Ichikawa, Osaka, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, Limited, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A semiconductor IC includes a test circuit comprising a logic circuit, a test timing generator, a first register serving as a test signal generation point, and second and third registers serving as test signal observation points. In this test circuit, a target signal transmission path to be tested is selected from a plurality of signal transmission paths in the logic circuit, and the test timing generator outputs a test clock having a cycle according to a delay time of the selected signal transmission path on design to the first to third registers, whereby the first register generates a test signal and the second and third registers observe the test signal. Therefore, the signal transmission paths connecting the test signal generation point and the test signal observation point are tested with high efficiency, whereby more signal transmission paths are tested for delay faults with less number of times the test is executed.