A METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR TESTING A LOGIC CIRCUIT

摘要

In a system for testing a logic circuit (1) which includes a plurality of flip-flops associated with a scanning path between scanning-in (SI) and scanning-out (SO) terminals thereof and a combination circuit including logic gates a parallel to series conversion is performed to reduce the time required to perform a test and to reduce the storage capacity of a memory (4) associated with the testing device. In the system, parallel input data is transformed to serial data by a shift register (51) and the serial data is then set into the flip-flops of the circuit (1). Serial output data from the circuit (1) is transformed into parallel data by the shift register (51) so that the data is output in parallel.