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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:
Sep. 16, 2014

Filed:

Aug. 09, 2013
Applicant:

Synopsys (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai, CN;

Inventors:

Bang Liu, Shanghai, CN;

Bohai Liu, Shanghai, CN;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/22 (2006.01); G06F 17/50 (2006.01); G01R 31/3185 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2013.01); G01R 31/318583 (2013.01);
Abstract

Provided are methods and devices of organizing scan chains in an integrated circuit. One method comprises generating first preference information representing prioritized listing of a plurality of scanning elements for each of a plurality of scan chains based on a first criterion, generating second preference information representing prioritized listing of the plurality of scan chains for each of the plurality of scanning elements based on a second criterion and at a computing device, assigning each of the plurality of the scanning elements to one of the plurality of the scan chains based on the first preference information and the second preference information.


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