Patent ID: 7313723
Filing Date: 2007-12-25
Classification: G06F,G11C,H01L

Abstract:
1. A self-reparable semiconductor, comprising: a first physical layer device including first and second subfunctional units that cooperate to provide a first port for a multi-bit Gigabit physical layer device; a second physical layer device including first and second subfunctional units that cooperate to provide a second port for said multi-bit Gigabit physical layer device that is functionally interchangeable with said first port; a first spare physical layer device including first and second subfunctional units, wherein said first sub-functional units of said first, second and first spare physical layer devices are functionally interchangeable, and wherein said second sub-functional units of said first, second and first spare physical layer devices are functionally interchangeable; and switching devices that communicate with said first and second sub-functional units of said first, second and first spare physical layer devices and that replace at least one of said first and second sub-functional units of at least one of said first and second physical layer devices with at least one of said first and second sub-functional units of said first spare physical layer device when said at least one of said first and second sub-functional units is non-operable.