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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2008
Steven M. Eustis, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Kevin W. Gorman, Fairfax, VT (US);
David E. Lackey, Jericho, VT (US);
Michael R. Ouellette, Westford, VT (US);
Steven M. Eustis, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Kevin W. Gorman, Fairfax, VT (US);
David E. Lackey, Jericho, VT (US);
Michael R. Ouellette, Westford, VT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A design structure is embodied in a machine readable medium for designing, manufacturing, or testing an integrated circuit. The design structure includes an input register coupled to a data processing unit input and a test operation mode and functional operation mode. In the test mode operation, the register operates in a clocked mode such that, during the test operation mode, the register propagates data to the data processing unit in response to a clock signal. In the functional operation mode, the register operates in a data flush mode such that the register propagates data to the data processing unit in response to the data. The functional mode is enabled by a flush enable signal and the test mode is enabled by an opposite state of the flush enable signal.