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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 8713490 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2014

Filed:

Feb. 25, 2013

Managing aging of silicon in an integrated circuit device

Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Malcolm S. Allen-Ware, Austin, TX (US);

Ronald J. Bolam, East Fairfield, VT (US);

Alan J. Drake, Round Rock, TX (US);

Charles R. Lefurgy, Austin, TX (US);

Barry P. Linder, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY (US);

Steven W. Mittl, Essex, VT (US);

Karthick Rajamani, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Attorneys:

Francis Lammes

Stephen J. Walder, Jr.

John D. Flynn

Primary Examiner:

Phallaka Kik

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2011.01); G01R 15/00 (2006.01); G01R 31/00 (2006.01); G01R 27/28 (2006.01); G01N 37/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/18 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G01R 31/26 (2014.01); G01R 31/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/5081 (2013.01); G06F 17/18 (2013.01); G06F 19/00 (2013.01); G06F 2217/76 (2013.01); G06F 2217/16 (2013.01); G06F 2217/14 (2013.01); G06F 2217/12 (2013.01); G06F 11/30 (2013.01); G06F 11/3055 (2013.01); G06F 11/3058 (2013.01); G01R 15/00 (2013.01); G01R 31/2642 (2013.01); G01R 31/14 (2013.01); G01R 27/28 (2013.01); G01N 37/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A mechanism is provided for mitigating aging of a set of components in the data processing system. A modeled age of a component in the set of components is identified. A desired aging requirement for the component is identified and a determination is made as to whether the modeled age of the component is greater than the desired age of the component. Responsive to the modeled age of the component being greater than the desired age of the component, a policy is implemented to mitigate the aging of the component.

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