Patent ID: 7710800

Claim:
A semiconductor device, comprising: one or more voltage islands representing a power cycled region, wherein each of the one or more voltage islands comprises at least one memory using redundancy and a repair register associated with each memory using redundancy; one or more non-power cycled regions located about the one or more voltage islands, wherein each of the one or more non-power cycled regions comprises at least one memory using redundancy and a repair register associated with each memory using redundancy; and a redundancy initialization component, coupled to the one or more voltage islands and the one or more non-power cycled regions, wherein the redundancy initialization component is configured to initialize each memory using redundancy and associated repair register with repair data, wherein the redundancy initialization component is configured to initialize a memory using redundancy and associated repair register with repair data independent of, or in conjunction with, the initialization of other memories using redundancy and associated repair registers.