Abstract:
PURPOSE: An interlayer interconnection for a multilayer semiconductor stack is provided to easily perform a communication between functional units using a universal and standardized interlayer bus. CONSTITUTION: Contact pads(22) are arranged on the surface of a semiconductor die(12). A gray pad(24) is interposed in an interlayer interface region(18). The gray pad is combined with a conductor for an interlayer bus. A black pad(26) is combined with a positive voltage or a ground. A white pad is electrically separated from an active circuit.
Abstract:
A performance-sensing element (PSE) circuit (300) detects the actual speed of other circuits on the same chip (200) by launching a pulse into a tapped cascade of circuits on the chip, then detecting how far the pulse has progressed after a known interval. Control signals indicating circuit speed can stabilize parameters of the other circuits, such as rate of change of current (di/dt) in driver circuits, absolute delay of clock signals from one chip to another, and relative delay of multiple clock signals within the chip.
Abstract:
A performance-sensing element (PSE) circuit (300) detects the actual speed of other circuits on the same chip (200) by launching a pulse into a tapped cascade of circuits on the chip, then detecting how far the pulse has progressed after a known interval. Control signals indicating circuit speed can stabilize parameters of the other circuits, such as rate of change of current (di/dt) in driver circuits, absolute delay of clock signals from one chip to another, and relative delay of multiple clock signals within the chip.
Abstract:
An IC chip connected to a substrate (10) by a pattern of pads (12) arranged in single lines along the radial edges of segments (15) of a polygon underlying the chip-linear conductors from the pads cross the outer edge of the segments in parallel groups. Wider power conductors (232, 233) can also be placed in the pattern.