Warranty monitoring and enforcement for integrated circuit and related design structure

A design structure embodied in a machine readable medium for designing, manufacturing, or testing an integrated circuit, the design structure comprising:

• an integrated circuit (IC) including:
• a warranty data storage system for storing warranty limit data regarding the IC;
• a parameter obtainer for obtaining a value of a parameter of the IC;
• a comparator for determining whether a warranty limit has been exceeded by comparing the value of the parameter to a corresponding warranty limit;
• and
• an action taker for taking a prescribed action in response to the warranty limit being exceeded.

A hardware description language (HDL) design structure encoded on a machine-readable data storage medium, said HDL design structure comprising elements that when processed in a computer-aided design system generates a machine-executable representation of an integrated circuit (IC), wherein said HDL design structure comprises:

• a parameter obtainer for obtaining a value of a parameter of the IC;
• a warranty data storage system for storing warranty limit data regarding the IC;
• a comparator for determining whether a warranty limit has been exceeded by comparing the value of the parameter to a corresponding warranty limit;
• and
• an action taker for taking a prescribed action in response to the warranty limit being exceeded.