Inventor · Rochester, MN, US

Steven M. Douskey

78Patents
11h-index
65Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 13, 1989 → Dec 8, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6115763A Multi-core chip providing external core access with regular operation function interface and predetermined service operation services interface comprising core interface units and masters interface unit Physics 240 Expired
US6158032A Data processing system, circuit arrangement and program product including multi-path scan interface and methods thereof Physics 98 Expired
US5617430A Testing system interconnections using dynamic configuration and test generation Physics 75 Expired
US5717701A Apparatus and method for testing interconnections between semiconductor devices Physics 62 Expired
US6807645B2 Method and apparatus for implementing enhanced LBIST diagnostics of intermittent failures Physics 45 Expired
US6735543B2 Method and apparatus for testing, characterizing and tuning a chip interface Physics 28 Expired
US5663966A System and method for minimizing simultaneous switching during scan-based testing Physics 18 Expired
US5668816A Method and apparatus for injecting errors into an array built-in self-test Physics 16 Expired
US7114109B2 Method and apparatus for customizing and monitoring multiple interfaces and implementing enhanced fault tolerance and isolation features Physics 16 Expired
US6195775A Boundary scan latch configuration for generalized scan designs Physics 15 Expired
US9404969B1 Method and apparatus for efficient hierarchical chip testing and diagnostics with support for partially bad dies Physics 11 Active
US4972414A Method and apparatus for detecting oscillator stuck faults in a level sensitive scan design (LSSD) system Physics 10 Expired
US8856720B2 Test coverage of integrated circuits with masking pattern selection Physics 9 Active
US9103879B2 Test coverage of integrated circuits with test vector input spreading Physics 8 Active
US8407542B2 Implementing switching factor reduction in LBIST Physics 8 Active
US9116205B2 Test coverage of integrated circuits with test vector input spreading Physics 7 Active
US9355203B2 Shared channel masks in on-product test compression system Physics 6 Active
US7793184B2 Lowering power consumption during logic built-in self-testing (LBIST) via channel suppression Physics 5 Active
US7310278B2 Method and apparatus for in-system redundant array repair on integrated circuits Physics 5 Expired
US8667431B1 Test coverage of integrated circuits with masking pattern selection Physics 5 Active
US6448835B1 High-speed leaf splitter for clock gating Electricity 5 Expired
US9032256B2 Multi-core processor comparison encoding Physics 4 Active
US9110135B2 Chip testing with exclusive OR Physics 4 Active
US7915929B2 High-speed leaf clock frequency-divider/splitter Physics 3 Active
US8898530B1 Dynamic built-in self-test system Physics 3 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.