Patent ID: 8502557

Claim:
A system for forming an electrical network within an integrated circuit (IC) which produces an approximation of a set of desired performance characteristics, comprising: at least one pool of sub-networks of like kind and like measure, each of said sub-networks consisting of one or more active or passive electronic devices; a plurality of arbitrarily controllable switch elements capable of electrically interconnecting said sub-networks in various steady-state combinations to implement respective electrical networks, said sub-networks and said arbitrarily controllable switch elements housed within a common IC, wherein each of said combinations for a given network includes an equal number of sub-networks; such that at least one of said networks can be implemented by at least two different combinations; and a performance determination system arranged to determine the performance characteristics of said combinations with respect to a set of desired performance characteristics and to operate said arbitrarily controllable switch elements in response to said determinations so as to selectively interconnect said sub-networks to implement an electrical network within said IC which produces an approximation of said set of desired performance characteristics.