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From: [e-mail] (Kumar Venkat)
Newsgroups: comp.lsi.testing
Subject: Re: Boundary Scan
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Date: 26 Jan 93 20:16:56 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (Anthony Sama) writes:
|> Has anyone utilized JTAG boundary scan to perform tests of system
|> logic?
|> Specifically, I would like to do the following:
|> 1) Scan in test data along the boundary scan register.
|> 2) Allow the system to run for one clock cycle using data from the
|> boundary
|> scan register as input to the system logic.
|> 3) Record the system outputs in the boundary scan register.
|> 4) Scan out the results.
|>
|> My problem is with steps 2) and 3) above.
|> If I use the Internal test, how do I allow the sytem to run for one
|> clock
|> cycle? Since the system clock is an input, it is unavailable. Do I
|> simply
|> let the system run for one cycle of TCK in the Run-test/Idle state of
|> the
|> TAP controller. Is there another way to do this without using the
|> Internal
|> test? Perhaps using the Sample test in conjunction with external system
|> clock controls?
|>
|> Any help/pointers/suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
|>
|> Anthony Sama
|> Drexel University


In INTEST, you can use a boundary-scan register to supply the clock
instead of either system clock or test clock. This register will have
to be multiplexed in at the source of the on-chip clock network. This
means you would have to scan once for each phase of the clock, and
scan the input signal values separately to provide enough setup and
hold with respect to the scanned clock.


-Kumar Venkat
Silicon Grpahics
[e-mail]