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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2000
Vincent C. Leung, Mountain View, CA (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention discloses an embedded and test mode timer circuit that is used to perform operations in an embedded mode and a plurality of test modes in a memory device. When the memory device is operating in the embedded mode, the embedded and test mode timer circuit is activated to automatically direct at least one logic circuit to execute logic tasks at predetermined times. When the memory device is operating in a test mode, the embedded and test mode timer circuit is activated to automatically direct a portion of the logic circuits to execute logic tasks at predetermined times and the remaining portion of the logic circuit are manually directed.