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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. 14, 2015

Filed:

Jun. 17, 2013
Applicant:

Mentor Graphics Corporation, Wilsonville, OR (US);

Inventors:

Janusz Rajski, West Linn, OR (US);

Jedrzej Solecki, Poznan, PL;

Jerzy Tyszer, Poznan, PL;

Grzegorz Mrugalski, Swardzez, PL;

Assignee:

Mentor Graphics Corporation, Wilsonville, OR (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/28 (2006.01); G01R 31/3177 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/3177 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the invention relate to generating scan chain configurations for test-per-clock based on circuit topology. With various implementations of the invention, weight vectors between scan chains in a circuit are first determined. Based on the weight vectors, a scan chain configuration is generated by assigning some scan chains in the scan chains to a stimuli group and some other scan chains in the scan chains to a compacting group. Here, the stimuli group comprises scan chains to operate in a shifting-launching mode, and the compacting group comprises scan chains to operate in a capturing-compacting-shifting mode.


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