US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 25 for "Integrated circuit including constant-0 flip flops reconfigured to provide observable and controllable test points" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,944, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Integrated circuit including constant-0 flip flops reconfigured to provide observable and controllable test points" was invented by Paul Policke (Cedar Park, Texas) and Shwetha Shivashankar Murthy (Pflugerville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC), includes: a data path; a logic gate including a first input coupled to the data path, and a second input configured to receive a second input configured to receive a test data register (TDR) signal; and a first flip-flop including a data input coupled to an output of the logic gate. Another inte...