Patent ID: 6961917

Claim:
Method for activating fuse units in an electronic circuit device in order to modify a circuit design for the electronic circuit device, in which fuse addressing units and fuse activation units cooperate, having the following steps: a) an electronic circuit device in which fuse units are to be activated is selected; b) those fuse units in the selected electronic circuit device which are to be activated in order to modify the circuit design for the electronic circuit device are determined; c) the fuse units are sequentially addressed using fuse addressing units; d) an activation state of the fuse units is stipulated; e) the fuse units addressed using the fuse addressing units are activated using the fuse activation units in line with the stipulated activation state; and f) the fuse addressing units skip immediately to an addressed fuse unit not to be activated using said fuse activation units by addressing a next one of the fuse units.