US 6,651,200 B1Granted

Method and apparatus for adaptive clocking for boundary scan testing and device programming

AssigneeAcculogic Corporation

InventorsMehrdad Barahmand, Saeed Taheri

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Abstract

A boundary scan controller and method. The boundary scan controller generates an output clock for shifting output data to a target device as a serial stream. The boundary scan controller generates another clock for receiving a serial stream of input data from the target device. The input clock is generated after the output clock according to a predetermined delay. The predetermined delay provides a period of time for the target device to respond to the serial stream of output data. The boundary scan controller comprises a clock generator for generating a system clock, a transmit module having a transmit clock generator and an output data register, a receive module having a receive clock generator and an input data register, and a state machine controller. The receive module includes a delay counter for generating a delay between the transmit and receive data clocks.

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Dependent claims

A boundary scan controller for scanning a target device, said boundary scan controller comprising:

(a) a clock generator for generating a system clock;
(b) a transmit module including,
(i) a transmit clock generator for generating a transmit clock, said transmit clock being derived from said system clock;
(ii) an output data register for storing an output data stream, said output data register having an output coupled to the target device and including logic responsive to said transmit clock for shifting said output data stream to the target device;
(c) a receive module having,
(i) a receive clock generator for generating a receive clock, said receive clock being derived from said system clock and including a delay counter for delaying the running of said receive clock so that said receive clock starts running after said transmit clock;
(ii) an input data register for storing data, said input data register having an input coupled to the target device and including logic responsive to said receive clock for shifting in an incoming stream of data from the target device;
(d) a state machine controller for controlling the operation of said transmit module and said receive module for performing a boundary scan of the target device.

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