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US 9,344,089 · App. 14/620,528 · Granted May 17, 2016

Semiconductor integrated circuit and power-supply voltage adaptive control system

Inventors: Masahiro Nomura (Kanagawa, JP); Taro Sakurabayashi (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
H03K19/1731G01R31/318575H03K3/0375H03K19/0008H03K19/0016H03K19/1776H03K19/17728
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 9,344,089
App. No.
14/620,528
Granted
May 17, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A semiconductor integrated circuit has N input terminals; N output terminals; a plurality of flip-flops (FFs) including N FFs and R redundant FFs; a selector section configured to select N selected FFs from the plurality of FFs depending on reconfiguration information and to switch data flow such that data input to the N input terminals are respectively output to the N output terminals by the N selected FFs; and an error detection section. In a test mode, the N FFs form a scan chain and a scan data is input to the scan chain. The error detection section detects an error FF included in the N FFs based on scan input/output data respectively input/output to/from the N FFs in the test mode and further generates the reconfiguration information such that the detected error FF is excluded from the N selected FFs.

Claims (13)

1. A semiconductor integrated circuit comprising:

a plurality of input terminals;

a plurality of output terminals;

a plurality of flip-flop circuits;

a memory circuit configured to store configuration information to configure connection relationship between said input terminals and said flip-flop circuits and connection relationship between said output terminals and said flip-flop circuits;

a first selector circuit configured to switch connection between said input terminals and said flip-flop circuits based on said configuration information from said memory circuit;

a second selector circuit configured to switch connection between said output terminals and said flip-flop circuits based on said configuration information from said memory circuit;

a third selector circuit configured to select an output of said flip-flop; and

a counter circuit configured to receive said selected output from said third selector, count a number of toggle times of said output of said flip-flop circuits, and output the count value to a control device.

2. The semiconductor integrated circuit according to claim 1 ,

wherein said memory circuit is configured to receive said configuration information based on said count value from said control device.

3. The semiconductor integrated circuit according to claim 1 ,

wherein said memory circuit is a latch circuit.

Assignments (1)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Nov 29, 2017
From: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
To: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 044928/0001 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2011-4548 · Jan 13, 2011 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 13349279 · Jan 12, 2012
Related Publication 20150162915A1 · Jun 11, 2015