发明授权
- 专利标题: Defect tolerant redundancy
- 专利标题(中): 缺陷容错冗余
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申请号: US11105326申请日: 2005-04-12
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公开(公告)号: US07477091B2公开(公告)日: 2009-01-13
- 发明人: John R. Nickolls
- 申请人: John R. Nickolls
- 申请人地址: US CA Santa Clara
- 专利权人: NVIDIA Corporation
- 当前专利权人: NVIDIA Corporation
- 当前专利权人地址: US CA Santa Clara
- 代理机构: Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP
- 代理商 J. Matthew Zigmant
- 主分类号: G06F11/16
- IPC分类号: G06F11/16
摘要:
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.
公开/授权文献
- US20060071701A1 Defect tolerant redundancy 公开/授权日:2006-04-06
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