US Patent Issued to Synopsys on Aug. 25 for "Logic built-in self-test (LBIST) circuit for authenticity validation" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,890, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Logic built-in self-test (LBIST) circuit for authenticity validation" was invented by Adam Cron (Hilton Head Island, S.C.) and Michael Borza (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example is a method. A query challenging authenticity is received at an intellectual property (IP) block in an integrated circuit (IC) die. The query may be a query of a query-response pair. A response to the query is generated, at the IP block, using a logic built-in self-test (LBIST) circuit. The response is transmitted from the IP block. The response may be received and compar...