PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15979995
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["331", "044000"]

Abstract:
A built-in self-test (BIST) methodology and apparatus provide for testing and calibration of an integrated circuit oscillator circuit topology that uses a one-pin (a single-pin) external resonator. The method employs dedicated test circuitry, also referred to herein as BIST apparatus, for the pass/fail verification of both the active and passive building blocks of the oscillator. At the same time, the methodology ensures accurate calibration and matching of the capacitors using dedicated digital circuitry and algorithms.

Claim (Index 16):
The method of  claim 13 , further comprising testing functionality of a second plurality of programmable oscillator capacitors of a second oscillator of the integrated circuit by:\n placing the second oscillator core of the integrated circuit into a high-impedance mode, the second oscillator core coupled to the second plurality of programmable oscillator capacitors via the reconfigurable capacitor connection matrix; and measuring the frequency of the relaxation oscillator as a function of a plurality of programming codes applied to the one or more of the second plurality of programmable oscillator capacitors via the reconfigurable capacitor connection matrix, the relaxation oscillator coupled to the second plurality of programmable oscillator capacitors via the reconfigurable capacitor connection matrix.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.49123
- Patent Class: 331.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15980058', '15224296', '15224199', '15224280', '15224224']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7365021127430612
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5052706179427944
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7133789632630345
- Mean Citation Score: 178.82918999999995
- Max Citation Score: 277.07968
- Similarity Product: 205.8369159802246

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test