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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:
May. 24, 2016

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 31/3183 (2006.01); G01R 31/3185 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/318307 (2013.01); G01R 31/318544 (2013.01); G01R 31/318563 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the invention relate to test generation techniques for test-per-clock. Test cubes may be generated by adding constraints to a conventional automatic test pattern generator. During a test cube merging process, a first test cube is merged with one or more test cubes that are compatible with the first test cube to generate a second test cube. The second test cube is shifted by one bit along a direction of scan chain shifting to generate a third test cube. The third test cube is then merged with one or more test cubes in the test cubes that are compatible with the third test cube to generate a fourth test cube. The shifting and merging operations may be repeated for a predetermined number of times.


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