IP Library Granted Patent US 8,918,688
Granted Patent B2
US 8,918,688 · App. 14/085,072 · Granted Dec 23, 2014

Gating WSP capture and TAP ShiftDR with TAP IR enable

Inventor: Lee D. Whetsel (Parker, TX)
Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
G01R31/3177G06F17/5081G01R31/318536G01R31/318508
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 8,918,688
App. No.
14/085,072
Granted
Dec 23, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

In a first embodiment a TAP 318 of IEEE standard 1149.1 is allowed to commandeer control from a WSP 202 of IEEE standard P1500 such that the P1500 architecture, normally controlled by the WSP, is rendered controllable by the TAP. In a second embodiment (1) the TAP and WSP based architectures are merged together such that the sharing of the previously described architectural elements are possible, and (2) the TAP and WSP test interfaces are merged into a single optimized test interface that is operable to perform all operations of each separate test interface.

Claims (11)

1. An integrated circuit comprising:

A. functional data input leads and functional data output leads;

B. a test data in lead, a test clock in lead, a test mode select lead, and a test data out lead;

C. test access port controller circuitry having a test clock input connected to the test clock lead, a test mode select input connected to the test mode select lead, an instruction register control bus output, and a data register control bus output that includes a ShiftDR lead;

D. instruction register circuitry having a test data input connected to the test data in lead, an instruction register control bus input connected to the instruction register control bus output, an IR gate control output, a data register mode output, and an AUX gate control output;

E. IR gate circuitry having a data register control bus input connected to the data register control bus output, an AUX gate bus input, and a gated data register control bus output;

F. data register circuitry having scan cells coupled to the functional input leads and the functional output leads, a test data input connected to the test data in lead, a test data output connected to the test data out lead, a data register mode input connected to the data register mode output, and a gated data register control bus input connected to the gated data register control bus output;

G. auxiliary data register control leads that include a Capture lead; and

H. AUX gate circuitry having AUX data register control inputs connected to the auxiliary data register control leads, a data register control bus input connected to the data register control bus output, and an AUX gate bus output connected to the AUX gate bus input, the AUX gate circuitry including a first gate having an AUX enable input coupled to the AUX gate control output, a Capture input coupled to the Capture lead, and a gated Capture output, and the AUX gate circuitry including a second gate having a ShiftDR input coupled to the ShiftDR lead, a gated Capture input connected to the gated Capture output, and a Shift-1 output included in the AUX gate bus output.

2. The integrated circuit of claim 1 in which the auxiliary data register control leads includes a Clock lead, a Shift lead, an Update lead, a Transfer lead, a Reset lead, a Select lead, a WSI lead, and a WSO lead.

3. The integrated circuit of claim 1 in which the gated data register control bus output includes a Clock-1 output, a Shift-1 output, and an Update-1 output.

Continuity (8)
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