Electrical fuses with redundancy

Details Electrical fuses with redundancy Electrical fuses with redundancy

2008-07-29

2008-07-29

Nguyen, Viet Q (Department: 2827)

Static information storage and retrieval

Read/write circuit

Having fuse element

C365S200000, C365S230060, C365S230080

Reexamination Certificate

active

07405989

ABSTRACT:
The present disclosure provides an electrical fuse cell with redundancy features and the method for operating the same. The fuse cell includes a first set of electrical fuses having at least one electrical fuse contained therein, and a second set of electrical fuses having at least one electrical fuse for providing redundancy to at least one fuse of the first set, wherein if one of the first set of electrical fuses is defective, at least one of the second set of the electrical fuses can be programmed to provide a redundancy function of the defective fuse.

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