Abstract:
An automatic redundancy system exploits and existent microprocessor management system on chip for carrying out autonomously, without communicating with the external test machine, the operations of writing data in the memory array according to one or more pre-established test patterns, of verifying data successively read from the memory array, eventually of substituting failed elements of the array with equivalent redundancy structures. A logic structure detects and stores eventual array fails upstream of the output data path, thus speeding up data collection relating to eventual fails without any interaction with the EWS test machine apart from communicating the end of the execution of the redundancy process.