A fault-tolerant, high-speed wafer scale system comprises a plurality of functional modules, a parallel hierarchical bus which is fault-tolerant to defects in an interconnect network, and one or more bus masters. This bus includes a plurality of bus lines segmented into sections and linked together by...http://www.google.de/patents/US5592632?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5592632 - Defect tolerant integrated circuit subsystem for communication between a module and a bus controller in a wafer-scale integrated circuit system
