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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2002
Darren L. Anand, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Bruce Cowan, Essex Junction, VT (US);
L. Owen Farnsworth, III, Bristol, VT (US);
Pamela S. Gillis, Jericho, VT (US);
Peter O. Jakobsen, Milton, VT (US);
Krishnendu Mondal, Burlington, VT (US);
Steven F. Oakland, Colchester, VT (US);
Michael R. Ouellette, Westford, VT (US);
Donald L. Wheater, Hinesburg, VT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A chip repair system designed for automated test equipment independent application on many unique very dense ASIC devices in a high turnover environment is disclosed. During test, the system will control on chip built-in self-test (BIST) engines collect and compress repair data, program fuses and finally decompress and reload the repair data for post fuse testing. In end use application this system decompresses and loads the repair data at power-up or at the request of the system.