An apparatus and method of repairing a processor array for a failure detected at runtime in a system supporting persistent component deallocation are provided. The invention also encompasses transmitters that perform the method. A printed microwave transmission line having an inductive section is connected to the via pad, wherein the inductive section has dimensions to compensate for transition discontinuity. Then, the data manager determines to select one or more other files based, at least in part, on the input. In this way, diversity effect can be obtained by means of repeat control while reducing the amount of feedback information. The ATC further includes a common emitter circuit and an emitter follower circuit, wherein logic high signals and logical low signals in the electrical signals are determined based on the reference voltage output from the ATC.