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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2011
Ashish Jaitly, Bangalore, IN;
Sridhar H. Rangarajan, Bangalore, IN;
Thomas E. Rosser, Austin, TX (US);
Ashish Jaitly, Bangalore, IN;
Sridhar H. Rangarajan, Bangalore, IN;
Thomas E. Rosser, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the invention provide for improving a success rate of an engineering design change (ECO) for an integrated circuit. In one embodiment, aspects of the invention include a method for improving a success rate of an engineering design change (ECO) for an integrated circuit, including: identifying a plurality of spare latches within the integrated circuit; determining an input driver for each of the spare latches; and replacing each input driver with a programmable gate array, such that the programmable gate array is programmed to a functionality of the input driver.