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Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2010

Filed:

Apr. 23, 2007
Applicant:

Markus Seuring, Dresden, DE;

Inventor:

Markus Seuring, Dresden, DE;

Assignee:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/28 (2006.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An integrated chip architecture is provided which allows for efficiently testing multiple cores included in the integrated chip architecture. In particular, the provided approach enables the test time and the number of required Input/Output test pins is nearly independent from the number of cores included in the multicore chip. The presented embodiments provide a multicore chip architecture which allows for providing input data to the multiple cores in parallel for simultaneously testing the multiple cores, and analyzing the resulting multiple test outputs on chip. As a result of this analysis embodiments may store on chip an indication for those cores that have not successfully passed the test.


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