International Business Machines Corporation

Eze Kamanu

Kenneth Joseph Goodnow

Peter Albert Twombly

Suzanne Granato

Kyle E Schneider

Todd Edwin Leonard

Adam J Courchesne

Jonathan P Ebbers

Ramnath Ravindran

An integrated circuit (IC) including a warranty and enforcement system, and a related design structure and HDL design structure are disclosed. In one embodiment, an IC includes a parameter obtainer for obtaining a value of a parameter of the IC; a warranty data storage system for storing warranty limit data regarding the IC; a comparator for determining whether a warranty limit has been exceeded by comparing the value of the parameter to a corresponding warranty limit; and an action taker for taking a prescribed action in response to the warranty limit being exceeded.

Warranty monitoring and enforcement for integrated circuit and related design structure

A method configures a plurality of circuit elements for execution of an application in a first configuration. The method monitors the execution of the application on the plurality of circuit elements to produce monitoring information, using a computerized device, and stores the monitoring information in a storage structure. The method selectively communicates the monitoring information to an external element separate from the computerized device. The external element transforms the first configuration into a second configuration based on the monitoring information. The computerized device receives the second configuration from the external element and reconfigures the plurality of elements into the second configuration.

Dynamically reconfigurable self-monitoring circuit

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