Electronic circuit assembly an a substrate containing programmable switches
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1. An electronic assembly comprising:
- a substrate, said substrate having a plurality of conductive tracks;
a plurality of electronic circuit devices;
means mounting the electronic devices on the substrate in electrical connection therewith;
a memory storing information as to which devices are operatively connected into the assembly; and
a plurality of reprogrammable switches within the substrate by which connection of said devices with the tracks can be changed.
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Abstract
An electronic assembly has a substrate with several conductive tracks and with a switching matrix within the thickness of the substrate. Several groups of identical integrated circuits are mounted on the substrate, one circuit from each group being operatively connected into the assembly by the switching matrix. A processor detects malfunction of a circuit and controls the switching matrix to disconnect that circuit and operatively connect into the assembly an alternative circuit from the same group.
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1. An electronic assembly comprising:
- a substrate, said substrate having a plurality of conductive tracks;
a plurality of electronic circuit devices;
means mounting the electronic devices on the substrate in electrical connection therewith;
a memory storing information as to which devices are operatively connected into the assembly; and
a plurality of reprogrammable switches within the substrate by which connection of said devices with the tracks can be changed. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
- a substrate, said substrate having a plurality of conductive tracks;
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11. An electronic assembly comprising:
- a substrate having a plurality of conductive tracks;
a plurality of groups of electronic devices, the devices in a group being identical with one another;
means mounting the electronic devices on the substrate;
a plurality of reprogrammable switches within the substrate by which one of the devices in each group is connected via the tracks into operative connection in the assembly;
a memory storing information as to which of said devices are operatively connected into the assembly and which of said devices have previously been operatively disconnected from the assembly; and
a processor responsive to a malfunction of a device to reprogram the switches to connect an alternative device from the same group, not previously disconnected, into operative connection.
- a substrate having a plurality of conductive tracks;
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