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Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2018

Filed:

Dec. 03, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Jeanne P. Bickford, Essex Junction, VT (US);

Nazmul Habib, South Burlington, VT (US);

Baozhen Li, South Burlington, VT (US);

Tad J. Wilder, South Hero, VT (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/5081 (2013.01); G06F 2217/78 (2013.01);
Abstract

Method of burn-in power optimization which includes: testing integrated circuit devices to record a performance speed for each of the integrated circuit devices; categorizing each integrated circuit device by a selective voltage binning (SVB) process into a voltage bin according to the performance speed of the integrated circuit device; performing a burn-in operation on each of the integrated circuit devices while toggling an SVB performance monitor on each of the integrated circuit devices; testing the plurality of integrated circuit devices after the burn-in operation; categorizing each integrated circuit device into the SVB voltage bin according to the performance speed of the integrated circuit device after the burn-in operation; when the SVB voltage bin after the burn-in operation corresponds to an SVB voltage bin having a slower performance speed than before the burn-in operation, changing the SVB voltage bin to the slower performance speed.


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