US Patent Issued to SambaNova Systems on July 14 for "Hybrid scan chains with flip-flops and latches" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,974, issued on July 14, was assigned to SambaNova Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Hybrid scan chains with flip-flops and latches" was invented by Thomas Ziaja (Austin, Texas) and Paul Jordan (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic circuit features a hybrid scan chain design comprising a flip-flop-based part of the scan chain and a latch-based part of the scan chain. The latch-based part may be included in an array of memory cells and includes one or more chain segments of storage memory cells. Chain segments are separated by chain buffer memory cells. Memory cells of each chain segment are coupled with a sequen...