Research project looks to repairing working chips

Nicolas Mokhoff, EETimes
3/15/2011 10:36 AM EDT

MANHASSET, NY -- Crisp consortium researchers are demonstrating a self-testing and self-repairing chip at the DATE2011 conference in Grenoble this week.

The consortium consists of a team of four companies and two universities in The Netherlands, Germany, and Finland which is developing a gracefully degrading chip while the IC is still operationally functional.

A run-time resource manager self-repairs the chip and reconfigures the chip's tasks to fault-free parts in real time.

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