US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 2 for "Streaming scan network latency balancing to reduce cost of testing identical replicated blocks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,623, issued on June 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Streaming scan network latency balancing to reduce cost of testing identical replicated blocks" was invented by Rajamani Sethuram (San Jose, Calif.), Ramanathan Bhagavathiperumal (Fremont, Calif.) and Surya Sasi Kiran Tallapragada (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for latency balancing in a streaming scan network (SSN) on an integrated circuit. Embodiments include receiving, at a programmable block on the integrated circuit, an indication of a number of pipeline stages to be used fo...