US Patent Issued to MARVELL ASIA on Dec. 9 for "Clock gating for scan shift clock in a mesh clock environment" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,318, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to MARVELL ASIA PTE LTD (Singapore).

"Clock gating for scan shift clock in a mesh clock environment" was invented by Shunquan Shen (Acton, Mass.), Zahi S. Abuhamdeh (Billerica, Mass.), Arun Hegde (Acton, Mass.) and Samuel Rodriguez (Northborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Clock distribution circuitry, for distributing clocks for scan operations in an integrated circuit device in which a mission mode clock is distributed by a mesh clock structure and a scan fabric clock is distributed by a scan clock bus, includes a mesh clock source, and a local distribution structure for distributing the...