发明名称 Apparatus and method for verifying macrocell base field programmable logic devices
摘要 A method of programming and verifying a macroscale based architecture in a field programmable logic device includes the step of selecting a flip-flop. The flip-flop contains a programmable address that accepts a sequence of instructions. A Switch Controller then selectably enables either one of two banks of switches. If the first bank of switches is selected, the programming operation is selected. If the second bank of switches is enabled, the verification operation is selected. The verification operation includes the step of automatically incrementing a base address through a set of incremented addresses. For each incremented address produced by the incrementing step, a margin low operation is performed with a Level Tester Array and a margin high operation is performed with a Level Tester Array. Thus, unlike the prior art, margin operations with the present invention are performed without using a macrocell scan register. Advantageously, relatively large groups of data are loaded into the flip-flops in the ADSR to improve processing.
申请公布号 US6181161(B1) 申请公布日期 2001.01.30
申请号 US19990340331 申请日期 1999.06.28
申请人 ALTERA CORPORATION 发明人 RANGASAYEE KRISHNA;ISHIHARA BRAD;NISHIWAKI KUNIO
分类号 G01R31/3185;(IPC1-7):G06F7/38 主分类号 G01R31/3185
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