Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Measuring internal signals of an integrated circuit
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Application No.: US15788292Application Date: 2017-10-19
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Publication No.: US10459030B2Publication Date: 2019-10-29
- Inventor: Kushal D Murthy , Manish Parmar , Preetam Tadeparthy , Muthusubramanian Venkateswaran
- Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US TX Dallas
- Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Dallas
- Agent Michael A. Davis, Jr.; Charles A. Brill; Frank D. Cimino
- Main IPC: G01R31/00
- IPC: G01R31/00 ; G01R31/3177 ; G01R31/28 ; H03K19/0948 ; H01L21/66 ; G01R31/317

Abstract:
An integrated circuit (IC) is provided with functional logic having a plurality of internal signal lines and test logic. The test logic has a plurality of inputs coupled to the plurality of internal signal lines and with an output coupled to a first external pin of the integrated circuit. The test logic includes a buffer, and the test logic is configured to selectively couple each of the signals received on the plurality of signal lines either directly or via the buffer to the first external pin of the IC. The test logic is configured to selectively couple a signal received on a second external pin of the IC either directly or via the buffer to the first external pin of the IC in order to calibrate the buffer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180038913A1 Measuring Internal Signals of an Integrated Circuit Public/Granted day:2018-02-08
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