Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) device implemented according to an architectural design that specifies that the IC device is required to have one functional module, to perform a first function, connected to another functional module, to perform a second function. The IC device includes a first IC chip having a plurality of first functional modules implemented thereon. Some of the first functional modules are defective and others of the first functional modules are non-defective. At least one of the non-defective first functional modules is operable to perform the first function. The IC device also includes a second IC chip having a plurality of second functional modules implemented thereon. Some of the second functional modules are defective and others of the second functional modules are non-defective. At least one of the non-defective second functional modules is operable to perform the second function.

Abstract: A simulation system for a microelectronic device having two or more functional modules from a megacell library, the simulation system utilizing actual physically implemented versions of each functional module (or block) from the megacell library so as to provide a more accurate and much faster simulation than a comparable software- or field programmable gate array-based simulation. The simulation system comprises means for providing a physically-based implementation of each functional module of a proposed design for a microelectronic device, the physically-based implementation being disposed on one or more test microelectronic devices used by the simulation system. Interconnecting means is used for electrically coupling together each of the physically-based implemented functional modules so as to produce the proposed design of the proposed microelectronic device.