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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2009
Filed:
May. 19, 2006
Applicant:
Lih-chung Kuo, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Lih-Chung Kuo, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/3187 (2006.01); G01R 31/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for the recovery from a design defect in an integrated circuit. The apparatus includes an error check module, a control settings module, a retry module, and a recovery module. The error check module discovers that an error has occurred during an operation. The control settings module changes the contents of one or more system control registers according to a set of system control settings that change the logic path of one or more system signals. The retry module executes the operation. The recovery module discovers that the operation was executed successfully.