Patent ID: 7962816

Claim:
An integrated circuit comprising; A. functional input leads; B. functional output leads; C. a TDI input lead; D. a TMS input lead; E. a TCK input lead; F. a TDO output lead; G. a TAP controller that includes a first state machine circuit, the TAP controller having inputs connected to the TMS and TCK input leads and TAP control outputs; H. an instruction register having control inputs connected to the TAP control outputs, a data input connected to the TDI input lead, a data output coupled to the TDO output lead, and instruction control outputs; I. parallel scan registers each having control inputs connected to the instruction control outputs, a data input and a data output; J. input switch circuits, one for each parallel scan register, each input switch circuit having a functional input connected to one functional input lead, a serial input connected to the TDI input lead, a control input connected to the instruction control outputs, and an output connected to the data input of one parallel scan register; K. output switch circuits, one for each parallel scan register, each output switch circuit having a serial input connected to the data output of one parallel scan register, a functional output connected to one functional output lead, and a control input connected to the instruction control outputs; and L. serializer circuits, one for each parallel scan register, each serializer circuit having a serial input connected with the TDI input lead, a serial output coupled with the TDO output lead, a TAP control input connected with the TAP control outputs, an instruction control input connected with the instructions control outputs, and a control output connected with a control input of a parallel scan register.