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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2001
Applicants:
Ko-yan Shih, Taipei, TW;
Ming-hsun Hsu, Taipei, TW;
Inventors:
Ko-Yan Shih, Taipei, TW;
Ming-Hsun Hsu, Taipei, TW;
Assignee:
VIA Technologies, Inc., Taipei Hsien, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A circuit for testing a chip. The chip has an intellectual product circuit module, and the circuit has a multiplexer controller, several registers and a MUX finite state machine controller to configure these registers in different states according to the test patterns. In the next state, a test activating signal is provided to the intellectual product circuit module. The intellectual product circuit module is then operated and tested according to the output of the registers.