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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2009
Anthony R. Bonaccio, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Michael Lestrange, Essex Junction, VT (US);
William R. Tonti, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Sebastian T. Ventrone, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Anthony R. Bonaccio, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Michael LeStrange, Essex Junction, VT (US);
William R. Tonti, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Sebastian T. Ventrone, Essex Junction, VT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A circuit for preventing failure in an integrated circuit. The circuit including: an original circuit; one or more redundant circuits; and a repair processor, including a clock cycle counter configured to count pulses of a pulsed signal, the repair processor configured to (a) replace the original circuit with a first redundant circuit or (b) configured to select another redundant circuit, the selection in sequence from a second redundant circuit to a last redundant circuit, and to replace a previously selected redundant circuit with the selected redundant circuit each time the cycle counter reaches a predetermined count of a set of pre-determined cycle counts.