Patent ID: 11860751
Assignee: SYNOPSYS, INC.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, from an automated test equipment (ATE), test packets comprising test pattern data to test a design under test (DUT), wherein the test packets are received over a serializer/deserializer (SERDES) connection between the ATE and the DUT;
applying, by a circuit in the DUT, the test pattern data to the DUT using a set of scan chains and obtaining test response data corresponding to the test pattern data;
receiving, by the circuit in the DUT, the test response data at irregular time intervals; and
sending, by the circuit in the DUT, response packets comprising a portion of the test response data to the ATE at regular time intervals, wherein the response packets are sent to the ATE over the SERDES connection.