An impulse suppression apparatus and method applied in an OFDM system for suppressing the impulse noise of a first time-domain signal are disclosed. A fastening bolt, attached to at least one fluid component, is screwed into a stacking bolt, attached to another fluid component, the bolts being screwed together inside the bore of an adapter plate. A wide variety of tools and accessory components may be disposed within the container. The processor-implemented method further includes the processor determining a compression ratio for each of the plurality of partitions based on the fault density value for each of the plurality of partitions and applying the compression ratio to each of the plurality of the partitions of the integrated circuit.