IP Library Granted Patent US 8,996,940
Granted Patent B2
US 8,996,940 · App. 13/349,279 · Granted Mar 31, 2015

Semiconductor integrated circuit and power-supply voltage adaptive control system

Inventors: Masahiro Nomura (Kanagawa, JP); Taro Sakurabayashi (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
H03K3/0375G01R31/318575H03K19/0008H03K19/0016
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 8,996,940
App. No.
13/349,279
Granted
Mar 31, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

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

Claims (18)

1. A semiconductor integrated circuit comprising:

N input terminals, wherein N is an integer equal to or more than 1;

N output terminals;

a plurality of flip-flops including N flip-flops and R redundant flip-flops, wherein R is an integer equal to or more than 1;

a selector section configured to select N selected flip-flops from said plurality of flip-flops depending on reconfiguration information and to switch data flow such that data input to said N input terminals are respectively output to said N output terminals by said N selected flip-flops; and

an error detection section configured to generate said reconfiguration information at a test mode,

wherein at said test mode, said N flip-flops form a scan chain and a scan data is input to said scan chain,

wherein a flip-flop whose output is fixed to 0 or 1 is an error flip-flop, and

wherein said error detection section detects said error flip-flop included in said N flip-flops based on scan input data respectively input to said N flip-flops and scan output data respectively output from said N flip-flops at said test mode and further generates said reconfiguration information excluding said detected error flip-flop from said N selected flip-flops.

2. The semiconductor integrated circuit according to claim 1 ,

wherein said error detection section comprises a memory section in which said reconfiguration information generated is stored, and

wherein at a predetermined timing after said test mode is ended, said reconfiguration information stored in said memory section is output to said selector section.

3. The semiconductor integrated circuit according to claim 2 ,

wherein said memory section is a latch circuit.

4. The semiconductor integrated circuit according to claim 1 ,

wherein said error detection section comprises N XNOR circuits,

wherein said scan input data respectively input to said N flip-flops and said scan output data respectively output from said N flip-flops are respectively input to input terminals of said N XNOR circuits, and

wherein 0 and 1 are alternately input as said scan data to said scan chain.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Nov 29, 2017
From: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
To: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 044928/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 31, 2012
From: NOMURA, MASAHIRO; SAKURABAYASHI, TARO
To: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 027622/0452 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2011-004548 · Jan 13, 2011 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20120182047A1 · Jul 19, 2012