Very high density wafer scale device architecture

Details Very high density wafer scale device architecture Very high density wafer scale device architecture

1996-01-17

1997-11-25

Nelms, David C.

Static information storage and retrieval

Addressing

Plural blocks or banks

36523006, 365222, 365226, G11C 700

Patent

active

056919492

ABSTRACT:
This invention relates to the design and manufacture of a wafer-size integrated circuit. Lower layers of the wafer sized integrated circuit comprise electrically isolated repeating blocks such as logic elements or blocks of circuit elements. An upper conductive layer comprises data and address bus structures. A discretionary via layer located between the upper layer and the lower layers can be patterned to accomplish multiple purposes. Patterning of the via layer avoids connecting the bus structure to defective elements or blocks, establishes addresses of elements, and establishes the organization of the addressing structure and data structure (for a memory wafer the word length, number of banks of words, and number of words per bank). The via layer is patterned to connect the upper bus lines to selected regions in the lower metal levels after testing (testing uses conventional techniques) for good and bad elements. As another novel feature, the structure may include two or more address ports, which may simultaneously address different banks of the repeating elements. The plural address port feature is particularly useful for automatic refreshing of dynamic random access memories (DRAMs) and/or for plural addressing with other memory types. The architecture provides for flexibility in the final functional organization of wafer scale devices, which is determined at the time the via level is customized. An overall reduction of overhead control circuitry and the reduced size of the repeated block provides for higher total density per wafer than is achievable with conventional single chip integrated circuits using the same level of manufacturing technology. More than one discretionary via layer and more than one bus layer may be provided.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5252507 (1993-10-01), Hively et al.
patent: 5287472 (1994-02-01), Horst

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