Method and System for Testing An Operation of Integrated Circuitry
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMatthew E. Fernsler, Tilman Gloekler, Sanjay Gupta, Christopher J. Spandikow, Todd Swanson
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Abstract
A general purpose computational resource is provided for performing general purpose operations of a system. A special purpose computational resource is coupled to the general purpose computational resource. The special purpose computational resource is provided for: storing test patterns, a description of integrated circuitry, and a description of hardware for testing the integrated circuitry; and executing software for simulating an operation of the described hardware's testing of the described integrated circuitry in response to the test patterns
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- a general purpose computational resource for performing general purpose operations of the system;
- and
- a special purpose computational resource, coupled to the general purpose computational resource, for:
- storing test patterns, a description of integrated circuitry, and a description of hardware for testing the integrated circuitry;
- and executing software for simulating an operation of the described hardware's testing of the described integrated circuitry in response to the test patterns.
A method performed by an information handling system, the method comprising:
- with a general purpose computational resource of the information handling system, performing general purpose operations of the information handling system;
- and
- with a special purpose computational resource of the information handling system:
- storing test patterns, a description of integrated circuitry, and a description of hardware for testing the integrated circuitry;
- and executing software for simulating an operation of the described hardware's testing of the described integrated circuitry in response to the test patterns.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.