Patents by Inventor Prashant Mohan Kulkarni

Prashant Mohan Kulkarni has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8438437
    Abstract: A scannable integrated circuit (100) including a functional integrated circuit (P1, P2) having scan chains, multiple scan decompressors (120.1, 120.2), each operable to supply scan bits to some of the scan chains (101.k, 102.k), a shared scan-programmable control circuit (110, 300), a tree circuit (400) coupled with the functional integrated circuit (P1, P2), the shared scan-programmable control circuit (110, 300) coupled to control the tree circuit (400), and a selective coupling circuit (180) operable to provide selective coupling with the shared scan-programmable control circuit (110, 300) for scan programming through any of the multiple scan decompressors (120.1, 120.2). Other circuits, devices, systems, and processes of operation and manufacture are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Arvind Jain, Prashant Mohan Kulkarni, Srinivas Kumar Vooka, Sundarrajan Subramanian, Rubin Ajit Parekhji
  • Publication number: 20120030532
    Abstract: A scannable integrated circuit (100) including a functional integrated circuit (P1, P2) having scan chains, multiple scan decompressors (120.1, 120.2), each operable to supply scan bits to some of the scan chains (101.k, 102.k), a shared scan-programmable control circuit (110, 300), a tree circuit (400) coupled with the functional integrated circuit (P1, P2), the shared scan-programmable control circuit (110, 300) coupled to control the tree circuit (400), and a selective coupling circuit (180) operable to provide selective coupling with the shared scan-programmable control circuit (110, 300) for scan programming through any of the multiple scan decompressors (120.1, 120.2). Other circuits, devices, systems, and processes of operation and manufacture are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Arvind Jain, Prashant Mohan Kulkarni, Srinivas Kumar Vooka, Sundarrajan Subramanian, Rubin Ajit Parekhji