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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2017
Applicant:
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/00 (2006.01); G11C 29/44 (2006.01); G11C 17/18 (2006.01); G11C 17/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/4401 (2013.01); G11C 17/16 (2013.01); G11C 17/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
An exemplary fuse control arrangement can be provided, which can include, for example, a fuse control unit(s), which includes a test access method interface(s) and a programmable memory(ies), wherein the fuse control unit(s) is configured to provide fuse information to repair a memory(ies). The fuse control unit(s) can be coupled to the memory(ies) and the memory(ies) can be coupled to a register repair unit(s). The fuse control unit(s) can provide the register repair unit(s) with the fuse information to repair the memory(ies).