REDUCED SIGNALING INTERFACE METHOD & APPARATUS

摘要

This disclosure describes a reduced pin bus that can be used on integrated circuits or embedded cores within integrated circuits. The bus may be used for serial access to circuits where the availability of pins on ICs or terminals on cores is limited. The bus may be used for a variety of serial communication operations such as, but not limited to, serial communication related test, emulation, debug, and/or trace operations of an IC or core design. Other aspects of the disclosure include the use of reduced pin buses for emulation, debug, and trace operations and for functional operations.

主权项

1. An integrated circuit comprising:
a test clock lead; a test mode select bi-directional lead carrying a test mode select signal to the integrated circuit and a second signal from the integrated circuit; plural test access port domains, each domain having a test data input, a test clock input coupled with the test clock lead, a test mode select input, and a test data output; an addressable circuit having an I/O bi-directional lead coupled to the test mode select bi-directional lead and a separate set of outputs and an input for each test access port domain, the addressable circuit including:
I/O circuitry having a connection to the I/O bi-directional lead, a test mode select output, and an input for the second signal;controller circuitry having an input coupled with the test mode select output and an input coupled with the test clock lead; andlinking circuitry having an input coupled with the test mode select output and including gating circuitry selectively coupling the test mode select output with a test mode select input of a test access port domain.