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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2008
Gerald Keith Bartley, Rochester, MN (US);
John Michael Borkenhagen, Rochester, MN (US);
William Paul Hovis, Rochester, MN (US);
Paul Rudrud, Rochester, MN (US);
Gerald Keith Bartley, Rochester, MN (US);
John Michael Borkenhagen, Rochester, MN (US);
William Paul Hovis, Rochester, MN (US);
Paul Rudrud, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Multiple interfaces dedicated to individual logic circuits such as memory arrays are capable of being dynamically reconfigured from operating separately and in parallel to operating in a more collective manner to ensure that data associated with all of the logic circuits will be communicated irrespective of a failure in any of the interfaces. Specifically, a plurality of interfaces, each of which being ordinarily configured to communicate data associated with an associated logic circuit in parallel with the other interfaces, may be dynamically reconfigured, e.g., in response to a detected failure in one or more of the interfaces, to communicate data associated with each of the interfaces over each of at least a subset of the interfaces in a time multiplexed and replicated manner.