Physical design symmetry and integrated circuits enabling three dimentional (3D) yield optimization for wafer to wafer stacking

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9029234
APP PUB NO 20130307159A1
SERIAL NO

13471869

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One of the wafers in a semiconductor wafer to wafer stack can be rotated a predefined number of positions, relative to a previous wafer in the stack, and bonded in the position in which the maximum number of good die are aligned. An adjustment circuit on each die reroutes signals received from a pad that has been relocated due to rotation. A communication channel formed from a pair of pads that are interconnected by a Through Substrate Vias can be placed in each die and can convey selected information from one die to the next. A code representative of the position orientation of each die can be recorded in a Programmable Read Only Memory located on each die, or may be down loaded from a remote source. Any additional wafer may be stacked serially, and each one may be rotated relative to the wafer that precedes it in the stack.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Fainstein, Daniel Jacob Beacon, US 4 45
Maier, Gary W Poughkeepsie, US 46 459
Robson, Norman Whitelaw Hopewell Junction, US 4 38
Safran, John Matthew Wappingers Falls, US 7 86
Song, Yunsheng Poughkeepsie, US 32 323

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