Patent ID: 8898530

Claim:
A method of performing a dynamic built-in self-test (BIST), comprising: performing the dynamic BIST with a first BIST of a circuit on a semiconductor chip, the first BIST has a first BIST setting that produces a first switch factor that generates a first parameter condition; monitoring the circuit during the first BIST by one or more sensors that measure the first parameter condition; collecting sensor data of the one or more sensors, the sensor data being a measurement of the first parameter condition; calculating a first sensor value, from the sensor data; determining whether the first sensor value has reached a set-point, wherein the set-point is when a sensor value is substantially equal to a programmable constant; and in response to determining that the first sensor value has not reached the set-point, adjusting the first BIST setting to a second BIST setting which adjusts the first switch factor to a second switch factor that generates a second parameter condition.