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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2007
Filed:
May. 29, 2002
William C. Moyer, Dripping Springs, TX (US);
William C. Bruce, Jr., Austin, TX (US);
William C. Moyer, Dripping Springs, TX (US);
William C. Bruce, Jr., Austin, TX (US);
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, an integrated circuit which uses one or more re-useable modules may use a signature generated by a duplicate state machine or an unmodified state machine to select, control, or otherwise affect a resource on the integrated circuit, where affecting the resource was not part of the original design and state diagram of the unmodified state machine. In one embodiment, a method and apparatus is provided for dynamically reconfiguring a plurality of test circuits in re-useable modules on an IC without modifying the controller state machine in the re-usable module.