Electricity: measuring and testing – Fault detecting in electric circuits and of electric components – Of individual circuit component or element
Patent
1994-11-04
1995-11-28
Karlsen, Ernest F.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Fault detecting in electric circuits and of electric components
Of individual circuit component or element
3241581, 324765, 371 225, G01R 3128
Patent
active
054711533
ABSTRACT:
The present invention is directed to methods and circuits for testing open collector or open drain output pads. In a preferred embodiment, the open collector or open drain outputs are hard driven to both their normal low and high level logic states during a test mode of operation. By actively driving open collector or open drain output pads to both their active and their inactive states, the existence of a stable output at any given sample time is guaranteed during a functionality test. The need to accurately estimate time delays associated with RC loads of external circuitry and the need to precisely strobe an open collector or open drain output following transition to an inactive, disabled state are therefore eliminated. Further, control signal inputs associated with a high impedance condition of open collector or open drain output pads can be directly examined at the circuit output using appropriate test logic.
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Karlsen Ernest F.
Keane Patrick C.
VLSI Technologies, Inc.
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