US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on May 13 for "Secured scan access for a device including a scan chain" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,346, issued on May 13, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Secured scan access for a device including a scan chain" was invented by Mudasir Kawoosa (Bangalore, India), Pervez Garg (Bangalore, India) and Prateek Giri (Chandigarh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a scan chain including a plurality of storage elements and an output buffer; a shadow shift register having a shadow shift input coupled to a scan output of one of the storage elements of the scan chain; a signature register; and a comparator having a first input, a second input, and an output. The comparator first input is to receive a valu...