Method and apparatus for a command based bist for testing memories

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PATENT NO 7290186
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10664190

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Methods and apparatuses in which two or more memories share a processor for Built In Self Test algorithms and features are described. The processor initiates a Built In Self Test for the memories. Each memory has an intelligence wrapper bounding that memory. Each intelligence wrapper contains control logic to decode a command from the processor. Each intelligence wrapper contains logic to execute a set of test vectors on a bounded memory. The processor sends a command based self-test to each intelligence wrapper at a first clock speed and the control logic executes the operations associated with that command at a second clock speed asynchronous with the first speed. The processor loads the command containing representations of a march element and data to one or more of the intelligence wrappers via a serial bus.

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SYNOPSYS INC690 EAST MIDDLEFIELD ROAD MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94043

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Darbinyan, Karen Fremont, CA 11 184
Harutyunyan, Albert Yerevan, AM 3 40
Torjyan, Gevorg Yerevan, AM 17 311
Zorian, Yervant Santa Clara, CA 49 719

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