PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15884369
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["714", "727000"]

Abstract:
Various aspects of the disclosed technology relate to using capture-per-cycle test points to reduce test application time. A scan-based testing system includes a plurality of regular scan chains and one or more capture-per-cycle scan chains on which scan cells capture and compact test responses at predetermined observation points per shift clock cycle.

Claim (Index 1):
A system, comprising:\n scan chains for testing a circuit in a test mode, the scan chains comprising:\n a plurality of regular scan chains, the plurality of regular scan chains being scan chains configurable to shift in test stimuli, to capture test responses, and to shift out the captured test responses in the test mode, and \n one or more capture-per-cycle scan chains, the one or more capture-per-cycle scan chains being scan chains configurable to capture test responses at observation sites (observation points) selected for testing the circuit during scan shift operations in the test mode, each of the one or more capture-per-cycle scan chains comprising:\n scan cells, and \n signal-combining devices, each of the signal-combining devices being inserted between two neighboring scan cells in the scan cells, \n \n wherein an output of each of the signal-combining devices is connected to a data input of a first neighboring scan cell, a first input of the each of the signal-combining devices is connected to an output of a second neighboring scan cell, a second input of the each of the signal-combining devices is connected to one of the observation sites, and no outputs of the scan cells drive any logic of the circuit in the test mode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.25581
- Patent Class: 714.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13920004', '12823586', '10117747', '15353412', '11368015']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3076744353112144
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4900038304909606
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3259073748291891
- Mean Citation Score: 232.396212
- Max Citation Score: 238.72995
- Similarity Product: 172.29237554316222

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

Dataset: test