Patent ID: 8230280

Claim:
An integrated circuit comprising: A. core circuitry having data destination circuitry and data source circuitry; B. a test mode select lead carrying bi-directional signals; C. a test clock input lead; D. communication circuitry having data decoder input circuitry coupled to the test mode select lead and the data destination circuitry and having an input enable input, and data encoder output circuitry coupled to the data source circuitry and the test mode select lead and having an output enable input; and E. access port circuitry separate from the communication circuitry and having a mode select input coupled to the test mode select lead and a clock input coupled to the test clock input lead, the access port circuitry including state machine circuitry connected to the mode select input and the clock input and having control outputs, the access port circuitry including an instruction register and a data register connected to the control outputs of the state machine circuitry.