US Patent Issued to Synopsys on April 22 for "Scan chain formation for improving chain resolution" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,063, issued on April 22, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Scan chain formation for improving chain resolution" was invented by Emil Gizdarski (Cupertino, Calif.) and Fadi Maamari (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes systems and methods for forming scan chains. The system includes a memory and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The processor receives a circuit design that includes a plurality of scan cells. The plurality of scan cells includes a first scan cell and a first set of scan cells coupled logically to the first scan cell. The processor forms ...