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US 2019/0293719 A1Published application
Semiconductor device, semiconductor designing device, and semiconductor test device
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
InventorMasahiko SUGIMOTO
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Abstract
A semiconductor device has a circuit block that includes scan chain circuitry for a scan test, and clock gating circuitry that switches supply and non-supply of a clock signal to the scan chain circuitry based on an enable signal. The circuit block includes a bypass path that bypasses the scan chain circuitry, and selection circuitry that selects one of an output signal from the scan chain circuitry and a signal passing through the bypass path based on the enable signal.
Claims9
A semiconductor device comprising:
- one or more circuit blocks that comprises scan chain circuitry for a scan test;
- and
- clock gating circuitry that switches supply and non-supply of a clock signal to the scan chain circuitry based on an enable signal, wherein
- the one or more circuit blocks comprises:
- a bypass path that bypasses the scan chain circuitry;
- and
- selection circuitry that selects one of an output signal from the scan chain circuitry and a signal passing through the bypass path based on the enable signal.
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A semiconductor designing device comprising:
- logic synthesis circuitry that generates a design target circuitry by logic synthesis;
- test circuit generator that divides the design target circuitry into a plurality of circuit blocks and incorporates a scan chain circuitry for a scan test into each of the circuit blocks;
- first pattern generator that generates a first test pattern for the scan test in each of the plurality of circuit blocks;
- redundancy judgment circuitry that judges whether the scan test is redundant based on results of the scan test performed with the first test pattern provided to the corresponding circuit block;
- redundancy avoidance circuitry that generates a clock gating circuitry to stop supply of a clock signal to the scan chain circuitry in the circuit block judged as redundant, and generates, in the circuit block including the scan chain circuitry judged as redundant, a bypass path to bypass the scan chain circuitry judged as redundant and a selection circuitry to switch between selection of an output signal from the scan chain circuitry and a signal passing through the bypass path based on an enable signal;
- second pattern generator that generates a second test pattern for a scan test to be provided to the circuit block judged as redundant by the redundancy judgment circuitry;
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- layout circuitry that designs layout of the design target circuitry based on results of processing by the logic synthesis circuitry, the test circuit generator, and the redundancy avoidance circuitry.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.