Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080016421
Filing Date: July 13, 2006
Inventors: Hugh William McDevitt
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Current U.S. Classification: 714, 714/733000
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The method of Claim 17, wherein the determining which core to invoke BIST operations in and invoking BIST operations only in the determined cores further comprising receiving by the programmable BIST controller an instruction indicating which of the cores to test and in response to the instruction, selecting by the programmable BIST controller which cores to invoke and providing input for invoking BIST operations to the selected cores according to the received instruction.
