OPERATIVE PRINCIPLES. 14 A. Accordingly, and in light of the foregoing recitals, the Parties agree that this Agreement is to be 15 implemented, interpreted, and viewed in light of the following Operative Principles:
OPERATIVE PRINCIPLES. 2 A. Accordingly, and in light of the foregoing recitals, the Parties agree that this Agreement is to be 3 implemented, interpreted, and viewed in light of the following Operative Principles:
OPERATIVE PRINCIPLES. The testing framework of the bisynchronous channel is designed to start at boot-time after the reset phase of the system completes. Thus both permanent faults due to fabrications defects and wear-out effects are tackled. At the falling edge of the reset signal, the ATA sends concurrently a Go signal to all the TPGs integrated into the neighboring switches in order to communicate the start of the testing. Afterwards, the ATA enters a wait state and the TPGs start the injection of the first test pattern. A new pattern is injected every time that the Go signal is asserted (the Go signal directly drives the counters of the TPGs). The patterns are composed by 32 bits of data, the valid and the full signal. When the TPG injects the pattern then it asserts the ready and enters in an idle state waiting for the next go assertion by the ATA. During the idle state, the TPG deasserts the valid signal. Since every TPG works at an independent frequency, the test patterns do not reach the desti- nation at the same clock cycle. Thus the ATA wakes up and enables a timer when it receives the first pattern. Therefore the timer generates a timeout flag if the test patterns from all the channels are not received within a maximum period of time. On the contrary, when all the pattern arrives, then the diagnosis phase can start. In this case, the incoming full signals are exploited by the ATA
