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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2007
Zhigang Wang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Laung-terng (L.-t.) Wang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shianling Wu, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Xiaoqing Wen, Fukuoka, JP;
Boryau (Jack) Sheu, San Jose, CA (US);
Zhigang Jiang, San Jose, CA (US);
Zhigang Wang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Laung-Terng (L.-T.) Wang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shianling Wu, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Xiaoqing Wen, Fukuoka, JP;
Boryau (Jack) Sheu, San Jose, CA (US);
Zhigang Jiang, San Jose, CA (US);
Syntest Technologies, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for compacting test responses containing unknown values in a scan-based integrated circuit. The proposed X-driven compactor comprises a chain-switching matrix block and a space compaction logic block. The chain-switching matrix block switches the internal scan chain outputs before feeding them to the space compaction logic block for compaction so as to minimize X-induced masking and error masking. The X-driven compactor further selectively includes a finite-memory compaction logic block to further compact the outputs of the space compaction logic block.