Defect tolerant redundancy

Details Defect tolerant redundancy Defect tolerant redundancy

2005-04-12

2005-04-12

Ton, My-Trang Nu (Department: 2816)

Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and

Specific identifiable device, circuit, or system

Redundant

C326S010000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06879207

ABSTRACT:
Circuits, methods, and apparatus for using redundant circuitry on integrated circuits in order to increase manufacturing yields. One exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a circuit configuration wherein functional circuit blocks in a group of circuit blocks are selected by multiplexers. Multiplexers at the input and output of the group of circuit blocks steer input and output signals to and from functional circuit blocks, avoiding circuit blocks found to be defective or nonfunctional. Multiple groups of these circuit blocks may be arranged in series and in parallel. Alternate multiplexer configurations may be used in order to provide a higher level of redundancy. Other embodiments use all functional circuit blocks and sort integrated circuits based on the level of functionality or performance. Other embodiments provide methods of testing integrated circuits having one or more of these circuit configurations.

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patent: 6091258 (2000-07-01), McClintock et al.
patent: 6107820 (2000-08-01), Jefferson et al.

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