Tracking health of integrated circuit structures

Details Tracking health of integrated circuit structures Tracking health of integrated circuit structures

2011-01-25

2011-01-25

Chase, Shelly A (Department: 2112)

Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery

Pulse or data error handling

Digital data error correction

Reexamination Certificate

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07877666

ABSTRACT:
Methods and apparatus to track the health of integrated circuit structures are described. In an embodiment, a counter may be updated when the status of a portion of a storage unit (e.g., a cache) transitions to a defective status (e.g., as determined by reference to one or more corresponding status bits). The value stored in the counter may be compared with a threshold value, e.g., to generate a signal that is indicative of whether the threshold value has been exceeded. Other embodiments are also described.

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