G01R31/31712

DISPLAY PANEL TEST CIRCUIT

A display panel test circuit includes a first transistor connected to a first data line and receiving a red lighting test signal, a second transistor connected to the first data line and receiving a blue lighting test signal, a third transistor connected to a second data line and receiving a first green lighting test signal, a fourth transistor connected to a third data line and receiving the red lighting test signal, a fifth transistor connected to the third data line and receiving the blue lighting test signal, a sixth transistor connected to a fourth data line and receiving a second green lighting test signal, a seventh transistor connected to the second data line and receiving a crack test signal, and an eighth transistor connected to the fourth data line and receiving the crack test signal. The display panel test circuit performs one or more tests on a display panel.

Inter-domain power element testing using scan
11047909 · 2021-06-29 · ·

Systems, methods, and circuitries are disclosed to test an inter-domain device that is positioned in a signal path between a first output wrapper device in a first module and a first input wrapper device in a second module. In one example, a testing system includes an output scan chain that includes the first output wrapper device and an input scan chain that includes the first input wrapper device. A controller is configured to: provide an output scan enable signal to the output scan chain to cause test data to be stored in the first output wrapper device; capture, with the first input wrapper device, inter-domain device data output; provide an input scan enable signal to the input scan chain to cause the inter-domain device data to be output by an output scan chain serial output; and determine whether the inter-domain device data indicates that the inter-domain device is defective.

CHIP AND TESTING METHOD THEREOF
20210096180 · 2021-04-01 ·

A chip testing method including the following operations is disclosed: outputting a plurality of testing sequences to a plurality of scan chains by an encoding circuit; generating a plurality of scan output data according to the plurality of testing sequences by the plurality of scan chains; and determining whether the plurality of scan chains exist an error according to the plurality of scan output data by a decoding circuit.

System-on-chip for at-speed test of logic circuit and operating method thereof

A system-on-chip includes a first scan register being in a first core and being closest to an input port of the first core; an inverting circuit on a feedback path of the first scan register; a second scan register in the first core; and a logic circuit on a data path between the first scan register and the second scan register. In a test mode for an AT-SPEED test of the logic circuit, the inverting circuit generates test data by inverting scan data that are output from the first scan register, the first scan register stores the test data in response to a first pulse of a clock signal, the logic circuit generates result data based on the test data that are output from the first scan register, and the second scan register stores the result data in response to a second pulse of the clock signal.

REDUCED SIGNALING INTERFACE METHOD & APPARATUS
20210072310 · 2021-03-11 ·

This disclosure describes a reduced pin bus that can be used on integrated circuits or embedded cores within integrated circuits. The bus may be used for serial access to circuits where the availability of pins on ICs or terminals on cores is limited. The bus may be used for a variety of serial communication operations such as, but not limited to, serial communication related test, emulation, debug, and/or trace operations of an IC or core design. Other aspects of the disclosure include the use of reduced pin buses for emulation, debug, and trace operations and for functional operations.

Circuit assembly and method for monitoring a micro-controller based on a watchdog voltage

A circuit assembly for monitoring the timing behavior of a microcontroller, including: a microcontroller to drive at least one watchdog voltage generating section for a temporally defined generation of at least one monitoring voltage and to detect and read in the generated monitoring voltage at a predetermined sampling point in time; in which the at least one watchdog voltage generating section is arranged to generate the monitoring voltage that is detectable at a predetermined sampling point in time by sampling by the microcontroller, in which a monitoring voltage that is detected at the sampling point in time and lies within a predetermined voltage tolerance range indicates a fault-free microcontroller state, and a monitoring voltage that is detected at the predetermined point in time and lies outside the predetermined voltage tolerance range indicates a faulty microcontroller state. Also described is a related method.

Method and a circuit for adaptive regulation of body bias voltages controlling NMOS and PMOS transistors of an IC
10943053 · 2021-03-09 · ·

A method and a circuit for adaptive regulation of body bias voltages controlling nmos and pmos transistors of an integrated circuit includes a digital circuit, a counter, a control unit and a charge pump. A first ring oscillator monitor measures a period duration of nmos transistors and a second ring oscillator monitor measures a period duration of pmos transistors. A first closed control loop adaptively regulates the performance c.sub.n of the body bias controlled nmos transistors of the digital circuit by comparing the measured period duration of nmos dominated first ring oscillator monitor to a period duration of a reference clock and a second closed control loop adaptively regulating the performance c.sub.p of the body bias controlled pmos transistors of the digital circuit by comparing the measured period duration of pmos dominated second ring oscillator monitor to the period duration of the reference clock.

AUTOMATED TEST EQUIPMENT FOR TESTING ONE OR MORE DEVICES UNDER TEST, METHOD FOR AUTOMATED TESTING OF ONE OR MORE DEVICES UNDER TEST, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING A BUFFER MEMORY
20210055347 · 2021-02-25 ·

An automated test equipment for testing one or more devices under test comprising a plurality of port processing units, comprising at least a respective buffer memory, and a respective high-speed-input-output, HSIO, interface for connecting with at least one of the devices under test. The port processing units are configured to receive data, store the received data in the respective buffer memory, and provide the data stored in the respective buffer memory to one or more of the connected devices under test via the respective HSIO interface for testing the one or more connected devices under test. A method and computer program for automated testing of one or more devices under test are also described.

AUTOMATED TEST EQUIPMENT FOR TESTING ONE OR MORE DEVICES UNDER TEST, METHOD FOR AUTOMATED TESTING OF ONE OR MORE DEVICES UNDER TEST, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR HANDLING COMMAND ERRORS
20210073094 · 2021-03-11 ·

An automated test equipment for testing one or more devices under test, comprises at least one port processing unit, comprising a high-speed-input-output interface, HSIO, for connecting with at least one of the devices under test, a memory for storing data received by the port processing unit from one or more connected devices under test, and a streaming error detection block, configured to detect a command error in the received data, wherein the port processing unit is configured to, in response to detection of the command error, limit the storing in the memory of data following, in the received data, after the command which is detected to be erroneous. A method and computer program for automated testing of one or more devices under test are also described.

AUTOMATED TEST EQUIPMENT USING AN ON-CHIP-SYSTEM TEST CONTROLLER
20210025938 · 2021-01-28 ·

An automated test equipment for testing a device under test comprises an on-chip-system-test controller. The on-chip system test controller comprises at least one debug interface or control interface configured to communicate with the device under test. The on-chip-system-test controller optionally comprises at least one high bandwidth interface configured to communicate with the device under test. The on-chip-system-test controller is configured to control a test of a device-under-test which is a system-on-a chip.