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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 19, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Takehiko Shimomura, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 3/128 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 3/128 ;
Abstract
There is provided a boundary-scan test device incorporated into a semiconductor integrated circuit for running self-diagnostics on the semiconductor integrated circuit. The device comprises a bypass unit for, when a package in which the semiconductor integrated circuit is assembled does not have one or more corresponding external input/output pins associated with one or more predetermined boundary-scan registers, changing the length of a boundary-scan register chain that consists of a plurality of boundary-scan registers by bypassing the one or more predetermined boundary-scan registers according to a bypass control signal applied thereto.