COMPRESSED SCAN CHAIN DIAGNOSIS BY INTERNAL CHAIN OBSERVATION, PROCESSES, CIRCUITS, DEVICES AND SYSTEMS

    公开(公告)号:US20210364569A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-25

    申请号:US17396079

    申请日:2021-08-06

    IPC分类号: G01R31/3177 G01R31/3185

    摘要: Electronic scan circuitry includes a decompressor (510), a plurality of scan chains (520.i) fed by the decompressor (510), a scan circuit (502, 504) coupled to the plurality of scan chains (520.i) to scan them in and out, a masking circuit (590) fed by the scan chains (520.i), and a scannable masking qualification circuit (550, 560, 580) coupled to the masking circuit (590), the masking qualification circuit (550, 560, 580) scannable by scan-in of bits by the decompressor (510) along with scan-in of the scan chains (520.i), and the scannable masking qualification circuit (550, 560, 580) operable to hold such scanned-in bits upon scan-out of the scan chains through the masking circuit (590). Other scan circuitry, processes, circuits, devices and systems are also disclosed.