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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2014
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Anshuman Chandra, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Subramanian B. Chebiyam, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jyotirmoy Saikia, Bangalore, IN;
Parthajit Bhattacharya, Bangalore, IN;
Rohit Kapur, Cupertino, CA (US);
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Operating a scan chain of a test circuit of an integrated circuit to have either a single fanout or multiple fanout to a compressor. The test circuit receives a fanout control signal for configuring the fanout of the scan chain. If the fanout control signal indicates configuring of the scan chain with a single fanout, the output of the scan chain is sent to one input of a compressor. If the fanout control signal indicates configuring of the scan chain with multiple fanout, the output of the scan chain is sent to multiple inputs of the compressor.