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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2010
Mack Wayne Riley, Austin, TX (US);
Mack Wayne Riley, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided is an apparatus that includes a processor comprising a plurality of processing cores and a corresponding plurality of LBIST modules, each LBIST module corresponding to one of the plurality of processing cores; a MISR read out connection, comprising a compare value register, a plurality of MISR registers equal in number to the plurality of cores, each MISR register corresponding to one of the plurality of processing cores and a corresponding plurality of XOR logic gates, each XOR logic gate coupled to the compare value register and a corresponding one of the MISR registers and configured to signal whether or not the event the compare value register and the corresponding MISR register match and logic, stored and executed on the processor, for transmitting the signals generated by the plurality of XOR logic gates.