IP Library Granted Patent US 9,404,973
Granted Patent B2
US 9,404,973 · App. 14/879,299 · Granted Aug 2, 2016

Test clock/test mode slect (TCK/TMS), select, data register (DR) connection circuitry between test access port (TAP) and bypass register

Inventor: Lee D. Whetsel (Parker, TX)
Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
G01R31/3177G01R31/3172G01R31/318536G01R31/318555G01R31/318572
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 9,404,973
App. No.
14/879,299
Granted
Aug 2, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

An integrated circuit has controller circuitry having coupled to a test clock and a test mode select inputs, and having state a register clock state output, a register capture state output, and a register update state output. Register circuitry has a test data in lead input, control inputs coupled to the state outputs of the controller circuitry, and a control output. Connection circuitry has a control input connected to the control output of the register circuitry and selectively couples one of a first serial data output of first scan circuitry and a second serial data output of second scan circuitry to a test data out lead. Selection circuitry has an input connected to the serial data input lead, an input connected to a test pattern source lead, a control input coupled to the scan circuitry control output leads, and an output connected to the scan input lead.

Claims (7)

1. An integrated circuit comprising:

(A) a test data in lead, a test data out lead, a test clock lead, and a test mode select lead;

(B) test access port circuitry including controller circuitry having control outputs, an instruction register having control inputs coupled to the control outputs, an input coupled to the test data in lead, a select output, and a data output, and a data register having control inputs coupled to the control outputs, an input coupled to the test data in lead and a data output;

(C) multiplexer circuitry having one input coupled to the data output of the instruction register, another input coupled to the data output of the data register, and an output coupled to the test data out lead;

(D) a bypass register, separate from the test access port circuitry, having a bypass control input, a bypass clock input, an input coupled to the test data in lead and data output;

(E) gating circuitry, separate from the multiplexer circuitry, selectively coupling the output of the bypass register to the test data out lead; and

(F) connection circuitry having a clock input connected to the test clock lead, a mode select input connected to the test mode select lead, an input coupled to the control outputs of the controller circuitry, a select input coupled to the select output of the instruction register, a bypass control output connected to the bypass control input, and a bypass clock output connected to the bypass clock input.

Continuity (14)
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