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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. 16, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 09, 2015
Applicant:

Mentor Graphics Corporation, Wilsonville, OR (US);

Inventors:

Janusz Rajski, West Linn, OR (US);

Amit Kumar, Marlborough, MA (US);

Mark A. Kassab, Wilsonville, OR (US);

Elham Moghaddam, Beaverton, OR (US);

Nilanjan Mukherjee, Wilsonville, OR (US);

Jerzy Tyszer, Poznan, PL;

Chen Wang, Lake Oswego, OR (US);

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 31/318342 (2013.01); G01R 31/318547 (2013.01); G01R 31/318583 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various aspects of the disclosed technology relate to techniques of creating test templates for test pattern generation. Residual test cubes for a plurality of faults are first generated based on a signal probability analysis of a circuit design. Test templates are then generated based on merging the residual test cubes. Finally, a plurality of test patterns and/or compressed test cubes are generated based on one of the test templates.


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