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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2004
Mikhail A. Wolf, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Mikhail A. Wolf, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A circuit testing approach involves the generation of boundary scan information using test vectors to identify characteristics of a circuit design and a boundary scan implementation therefor. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, test vectors are used in simulation to identify circuit design characteristics for establishing a boundary scan test program. The test vectors are generated using a netlist of the circuit design. The test vectors are used to simulate operation of the circuit, and responses to the simulation are detected and used to identify design-specific circuit characteristics and a boundary scan test program is generated using the design-specific circuit characteristics.