Invention Grant
US07698608B2 Using a single bank of efuses to successively store testing data from multiple stages of testing
有权
使用一组efuses来连续存储来自多个测试阶段的测试数据
- Patent Title: Using a single bank of efuses to successively store testing data from multiple stages of testing
- Patent Title (中): 使用一组efuses来连续存储来自多个测试阶段的测试数据
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Application No.: US11956458Application Date: 2007-12-14
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Publication No.: US07698608B2Publication Date: 2010-04-13
- Inventor: Mack Wayne Riley
- Applicant: Mack Wayne Riley
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent Francis Lammes; Stephen J. Walder, Jr.; Matthew B. Talpis
- Main IPC: G11C29/00
- IPC: G11C29/00

Abstract:
A mechanism is provided for using a single bank of electric fuses (eFuses) to successively store test data derived from multiple stages of testing are provided. To encode and store array redundancy data from each subsequent test in the same bank of eFuses, a latch on a scan chain is used that holds the programming information for each eFuse. This latch allows for programming only a portion of eFuses during each stage of testing. Moreover, the data programmed in the eFuses can be sensed and read as part of a scan chain. Thus, it can be easily determined what portions of the bank of eFuses have already been programmed by a previous stage of testing and where to start programming the next set of data into the bank of eFuses. As a result, the single bank of eFuses stores multiple sets of data from a plurality of test stages.
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