Patents Assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Col, Ltd
  • BIDIRECTIONAL SCAN CHAIN STRUCTURE AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20170307683
    Abstract: A bi-directional scan chain includes a plurality of cell structures, each cell structure having a storage device and at least one multiplexer, the plurality of cell structures coupled to one another in a series configuration, wherein an output of a (K-1)-th cell structure is provided as input to the K-th cell structure to provide a forward data shifting operation, and an output of the K-th cell structure is provided as an input to the (K-1)-th cell structure to provide a backward data shifting operation, where K is an integer greater than 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Col, Ltd
    Inventors: Sandeep Kumar Goel, Yun-Han Lee