US Patent Issued to Altera on Sept. 9 for "Circuits and methods for configurable scan chains" (American, Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,174, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Circuits and methods for configurable scan chains" was invented by Bee Yee Ng (Penang, Malaysia) and Ilya Ganusov (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes first and second data storage circuits, first, second, and third shadow storage circuits, and first, second, and third multiplexer circuits. The first multiplexer circuit is configurable to provide a state of a data signal from the first data storage circuit to the first shadow storage circuit in a snapshot mode. The second multiplexer circuit is coupled between an outp...