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Design for test

Adds the structures that let every manufactured part be tested quickly and thoroughly: scan chains and compression, built-in self-test for memories and logic, boundary scan and test access networks, and the patterns a tester applies. For an IP block it delivers the block's own test structures and patterns, ready for the SoC's test plan.

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