Reconfiguration method for array structures using spare element lines

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Reconfiguration of a memory array using spare rows and columns has been known to be a useful technique to improve the yield. When the numbers of spare rows and scolumns are limited, respectively, the repair problem is known to be NP-complete. In this paper, we propose the reconfiguration algorithm for an array of memory cells using faulty cel clustering, which removes rows and columns algrithm is the simplest reconfiguration method with the time complexity of $O(n^2)$, where n is the number of faulty cells, however the repair rate is very low. Whereas the exhaustive search algorithm has a high repair rate, but the time complexity is $O(2^n)$. The proposed algorithm provides the same repair rate as the exhaustive search algorithm for almost all cases and runs as fast as the greedy method. It has the time complexity of $O(n^3)$ in the worst case. We show that the propsed algorithm provides more efficient solutions than other algorithms using simulations.