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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2013
Applicant:
Mentor Graphics Corporation, Wilsonville, OR (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Mentor Graphics Corporation, Wilsonville, OR (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/28 (2006.01); G01R 31/3177 (2006.01); G01R 31/3185 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/3177 (2013.01); G01R 31/318525 (2013.01); G01R 31/318541 (2013.01);
Abstract
A dictionary-based scan chain fault detector includes a dictionary with fault signatures computed for scan cells in the scan chain. Entries in the fault dictionary are compared with failures in the failure log to identify a faulty scan cell. In one embodiment a single fault in a scan chain is identified. In another embodiment, a last fault and a first fault in a scan chain are identified.