Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Scannable memories with robust clocking methodology to prevent inadvertent reads or writes
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Application No.: US14488171Application Date: 2014-09-16
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Publication No.: US09666301B2Publication Date: 2017-05-30
- Inventor: Venugopal Boynapalli , Kashyap Ramachandra Bellur , Prabaharan Balu , Bilal Zafar , Alex Dongkyu Park , Sei Seung Yoon
- Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP
- Main IPC: G01R31/28
- IPC: G01R31/28 ; G11C29/08 ; G11C29/32 ; G11C8/16 ; G11C29/20

Abstract:
An example scannable register file includes a plurality of memory cells and, a shift phase of a scan test shifts data bits from a scan input through the plurality of memory cells to a scan output. The shifting can be performed by, on each clock cycle, reading one of the plurality of memory cells to supply the scan out and writing one of the plurality of memory cells with the data bit on a scan input. To perform sequential reads and writes on each clock cycle, the scannable register can generate a write clock that, during the shift phase, is inverted from the clock used for functional operation. The write clock is generated without glitches so that unintended writes do not occur. Scannable register files can be integrated with scan-based testing (e.g., using automatic test pattern generation) of other modules in an integrated circuit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160078965A1 SCANNABLE MEMORIES WITH ROBUST CLOCKING METHODOLOGY TO PREVENT INADVERTENT READS OR WRITES Public/Granted day:2016-03-17
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