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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2014

Filed:

Oct. 28, 2013
Applicant:

Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;

Inventors:

Saeed Azimi, Union City, CA (US);

Son Ho, Los Altos, CA (US);

Daniel Smathers, Boulder, CO (US);

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

A system for testing an integrated circuit, in which the system includes a deserializer, a frame sync module, and a diagnostic module. The deserializer is external to the integrated circuit and is configured to receive messages in a serial data format, wherein the messages include test results associated with the integrated circuit, and deserialize the messages into data frames. The frame sync module is configured to provide control code based on the data frames, wherein the control code includes, in a digital format, status information associated with the messages deserialized into the data frames. The diagnostic module is configured to generate, based on the control code, diagnostic data associated with states of the integrated circuit.


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