US Patent Issued to Silicon Motion on March 18 for "Mechanism capable of performing on-chip test and verification" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,564, issued on March 18, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Mechanism capable of performing on-chip test and verification" was invented by Tse-Yen Liu (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a functional circuit, a test mode circuit, and a verification circuit. The verification circuit generates and outputs the test waveform signals into the test mode circuit based on a clock signal provided from the test mode circuit, receives test result waveform signals from the test mode circuit when at least one test operation corresponding to the test pattern signal is performed,...