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US 2003/0115555 A1Published application
A method and apparatus for integrating boundary-scan multiplexer functionality within a pad driver
OwnerLarry Wisselinventor
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for implementing Boundary-Scan functionality (i.e. the selection of either functional or test data) while eliminating undesirable delay during the selection of the functional data.
Claims10
A pad driver comprising:
- means for selecting either functional or test data;
- means for driving the selected data to a pad;
- and
- means for transmitting the selected functional data to the driving means, the transmission of the selected functional data occurring substantially simultaneously with the receipt of the selected functional data.
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A pad driver comprising:
- means for selecting either functional or test data;
- and
- means for driving the selected data to a pad.
A method of driving data to a pad, the method comprising the steps of:
- selecting either functional or test data;
- driving, using a driver circuit, the selected data to the pad;
- and
- transmitting the selected functional data to the driver circuit, the transmission of the selected functional data occurring substantially simultaneously with the receipt of the selected functional data.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.