Patent ID: 8120141

Claim:
An integrated circuit chip, comprising: a circuit comprising: a power distribution network having power wires; a ground distribution network; having ground wires; and a data network having data wires; one or more fuses within said integrated circuit chip, said fuses having respective first and second terminals; wherein said first and second terminals of each fuse of said one or more fuses is connected between a ground wire and a data wire of said network or a power wire and a data wire of said network or a ground wire and a power wire of said circuit, said circuit inoperable when at least one of said one or more fuses are electrically conductive and operable only when all of said one or more fuses are electrically non-conductive; and a shorting bus, said first terminals of each fuse of said one or more fuses connected to said shorting bus, second terminals of each fuse of said one or more fuses connected to a respective power wire, ground wire or data wire of said circuit.