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公开(公告)号:US10788877B1
公开(公告)日:2020-09-29
申请号:US16787520
申请日:2020-02-11
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Inventor: Sebastian T. Ventrone , Lansing D. Pickup
Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a low power multiplexer (MUX) circuit, including: a first data input coupled to an input of a first pass gate device; a second data input coupled to an input of a second pass gate device; a hold latch having an input coupled to a data output of the MUX circuit and an output coupled to an input of a supplemental pass gate device; and a pulse generator for generating a HOLD pulse signal, wherein the HOLD pulse signal is coupled to a control input of the supplemental pass gate device. The hold latch is configured to hold a previously valid output data signal of the MUX circuit until a valid input data signal is available at the first data input or the second data input.
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公开(公告)号:US10083891B1
公开(公告)日:2018-09-25
申请号:US15789108
申请日:2017-10-20
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Inventor: Richard S. Graf , Sebastian T. Ventrone , Ezra D. B. Hall
IPC: H01L23/38 , H01L27/108 , H01L23/34 , H01L25/16 , H01L23/498 , H01L23/48 , H01L23/367 , H01L35/10
CPC classification number: H01L23/38 , H01L23/34 , H01L23/345 , H01L23/3675 , H01L23/481 , H01L23/49816 , H01L23/49833 , H01L23/5384 , H01L23/5385 , H01L25/16 , H01L27/10897 , H01L35/10 , H01L2224/16225 , H01L2224/73253 , H01L2924/15311
Abstract: An IC chip package includes: a base substrate; an interposer substrate including a plurality of wires therein, the interposer substrate operatively coupled to the base substrate; and a processor operatively positioned on the interposer substrate. A memory is operatively positioned on the interposer substrate and operatively coupled to the processor through the interposer substrate. The memory includes: a 3D DRAM stack, a thermoelectric heat pump coupled directly to an uppermost layer of the 3D DRAM stack, and a memory controller operatively coupled to the 3D DRAM stack to control operation of the 3D DRAM stack. A temperature controller operatively coupled to the thermoelectric heat pump controls a temperature of the 3D DRAM stack using the thermoelectric heat pump. A lid may thermally couple to an uppermost surface of the processor and an uppermost surface of the thermoelectric heat pump.
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公开(公告)号:US09871020B1
公开(公告)日:2018-01-16
申请号:US15210403
申请日:2016-07-14
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Inventor: Sebastian T. Ventrone , Sudeep Mandal
IPC: G11C15/00 , G11C15/04 , G11C15/06 , H01L25/065
CPC classification number: H01L25/0657 , G11C15/04 , G11C15/06 , H01L2225/0652 , H01L2225/06548 , H01L2225/06558 , H01L2225/06572
Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to intelligent through silicon via sharing in 3D-IC integrated structures and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a plurality of stacked dies each containing at least one macro device; and a layer structure positioned between the plurality of stacked dies which comprises a control structured to route signals between the at least one macro device of a first stacked die and the at least one macro device of a second stacked die of the plurality of stacked dies.
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公开(公告)号:US20160117433A1
公开(公告)日:2016-04-28
申请号:US14525320
申请日:2014-10-28
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Inventor: Eric A. Foreman , Chaitanya Kompalli , Sudeep Mandal , Sebastian T. Ventrone
IPC: G06F17/50
CPC classification number: G06F17/5068 , G06F2217/84
Abstract: As disclosed herein, a method, executed by a computer, for integrated circuit timing variability reduction includes loading a netlist that corresponds to a chip design, where the chip design includes one or more circuits and a plurality of post-fill features, traversing a portion of the netlist corresponding to a circuit, determining a post-fill environment for the circuit from a plurality of post-fill features, and modeling a timing variance for the circuit based on the post-fill environment. The method may also include changing one or more post-fill features to achieve a targeted delay. The method may include generating a report of circuit timing and timing variances. One or more circuits can be concurrently traversed. The timing variance can be modeled with the use of a scaling factor for a standard timing variance. A computer system and computer program product corresponding to the method are also disclosed herein.
Abstract translation: 如本文所公开的,由计算机执行的用于集成电路定时可变性降低的方法包括加载对应于芯片设计的网表,其中芯片设计包括一个或多个电路和多个后填充特征,遍历部分 所述网表对应于电路,从多个后填充特征确定所述电路的填充后环境,以及基于所述填充后环境对所述电路的定时方差进行建模。 该方法还可以包括改变一个或多个后填充特征以实现目标延迟。 该方法可以包括生成电路定时和定时方差的报告。 可以同时遍历一个或多个电路。 定时方差可以用标准时间方差的缩放因子来建模。 本文还公开了与该方法对应的计算机系统和计算机程序产品。
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公开(公告)号:US20210033660A1
公开(公告)日:2021-02-04
申请号:US16527146
申请日:2019-07-31
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Inventor: Sebastian T. Ventrone , Richard S. Graf , Ezra D. B. Hall , Jack R. Smith
Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) includes functional logic therein that can be enabled by application of a predefined thermal cycle. The IC includes an enabling fuse operatively coupled to the functional logic, the functional logic being disabled unless enabled by activation of the enabling fuse. A set of thermal sensors are arranged in a physically distributed manner through at least a portion of the IC. A test control macro operatively couples to the set of thermal sensors and the enabling fuse for activating the enabling fuse to enable the functional logic in response to application of a thermal cycle that causes the set of thermal sensors to sequentially experience a thermal condition matching a thermal sequence enabling test. A related method and system for applying the predefined thermal cycle are also provided.
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公开(公告)号:US20190214348A1
公开(公告)日:2019-07-11
申请号:US15867118
申请日:2018-01-10
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Inventor: Wen Liu , Sebastian T. Ventrone , Adam C. Smith , Janice M. Adams , Nazmul Habib
IPC: H01L23/544 , H01L21/78 , H01L21/66
Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide an integrated circuit (IC) wafer having a plurality of circuit dies each bounded by a set of scribe lines. The IC structure includes: a plurality of reference features each respectively positioned in a first layer of one of the plurality of circuit dies. The reference feature of each circuit die is equidistant from a respective set of scribe lines for the circuit die, and a plurality of identification features each positioned in a second layer of one of the plurality of circuit dies. The reference feature of each circuit die has a distinct offset vector indicative of a positional difference between the identification feature for the circuit die and the reference feature for the circuit die, relative to the identification feature of each other circuit die.
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公开(公告)号:US20170255471A1
公开(公告)日:2017-09-07
申请号:US15062302
申请日:2016-03-07
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Inventor: Jack R. Smith , Sebastian T. Ventrone , Ezra D. B. Hall
CPC classification number: G06F9/3832 , G06F9/3808
Abstract: Various embodiments include processors for processing operations. In some cases, a processor includes: an instruction fetch component configured to fetch processing instructions; an instruction cache component connected with the instruction fetch component, configured to store the processing instructions; an execution component connected with the instruction cache component, configured to execute the processing instructions; a monitor component connected with the execution component, configured to receive execution results from the processing instructions; and a content addressable memory (CAM) component connected with the instruction fetch component and the monitor component, wherein the monitor component stores a portion of the execution results in the CAM for subsequent use in bypassing the execution component.
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公开(公告)号:US11101010B2
公开(公告)日:2021-08-24
申请号:US16568394
申请日:2019-09-12
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Inventor: Eric D. Hunt-Schroeder , Sebastian T. Ventrone , James A. Svarczkopf , Igor Arsovski
IPC: G11C17/18 , G11C7/06 , G11C7/08 , G11C11/409
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a structure including a first delay path circuit which is configured to receive an input signal and is connected to a complement transistor of a twin cell transistor pair through a complement bitline signal, a second delay path circuit which is configured to receive the input signal and is connected to a true transistor of the twin cell transistor pair through a true bitline signal, and a logic circuit which is configured to receive a first output of the first delay path circuit and a second output of the second delay path circuit and output a data output signal.
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公开(公告)号:US10249590B2
公开(公告)日:2019-04-02
申请号:US15614850
申请日:2017-06-06
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Inventor: Sudeep Mandal , Sebastian T. Ventrone , Richard S. Graf
Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to stacked dies using one or more interposers and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: at least one die comprising a plurality of via interconnects, the plurality of via interconnects comprising at least one functional via interconnect, one defective via interconnect and one redundant functional via interconnect to compensate for the one defective via interconnect; and an interposer which includes interconnects that aligns to and electrically connects the at least one functional via interconnect and the redundant functional via interconnect of different dies when the interposer is oriented in a predetermined orientation.
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公开(公告)号:US20180019227A1
公开(公告)日:2018-01-18
申请号:US15210403
申请日:2016-07-14
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Inventor: Sebastian T. Ventrone , Sudeep Mandal
IPC: H01L25/065 , G11C15/04 , G11C15/06
CPC classification number: H01L25/0657 , G11C15/04 , G11C15/06 , H01L2225/0652 , H01L2225/06548 , H01L2225/06558 , H01L2225/06572
Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to intelligent through silicon via sharing in 3D-IC integrated structures and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a plurality of stacked dies each containing at least one macro device; and a layer structure positioned between the plurality of stacked dies which comprises a control structured to route signals between the at least one macro device of a first stacked die and the at least one macro device of a second stacked die of the plurality of stacked dies.
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