US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on July 14 for "System and method for schedule-based I/O multiplexing for integrated circuit (IC) scan test" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,084, issued on July 14, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"System and method for schedule-based I/O multiplexing for integrated circuit (IC) scan test" was invented by Sounil Biswas (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is proposed to support schedule-based I/O multiplexing for scan testing of an IC. A plurality of I/Os are assigned to a plurality of blocks in the IC for scan testing based on a set of slots under a set of schedules. Each of the set of slots includes a fixed number of scan input pins/pads and scan output pins/pads of the IC. Each slot is then assigned to a specific block on the I...