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- A question for folks designing circuits, is it the case that 100% of transistors must be functional for the circuit to operate, or are a few transistors allowed to fail in the design, but compensation circuits or redundancy is put in place to prevent circut funtionality to degrade? I'm wondering about state of the art SoCs, and whether all billion transistors need to work, or whether only a subset of the total transistor count is needs to be functional for the circuit to operate appropriately
A question for folks designing circuits, is it the case that 100% of transistors must be functional for the circuit to operate, or are a few transistors allowed to fail in the design, but compensation circuits or redundancy is put in place to prevent circut funtionality to degrade? I'm wondering about state of the art SoCs, and whether all billion transistors need to work, or whether only a subset of the total transistor count is needs to be functional for the circuit to operate appropriately