Qualcomm Incorporated

Vinod Kumar Lakshmipathi

Madan Krishnappa

Venugopal Sanaka

Babu Suriamoorthy

Pavan Kumar Patibanda

Various embodiments may include integrated circuits (ICs) and methods for designing an integrated circuit (IC), such as a system-on-chip (SOC). Embodiments include methods for planning and producing ICs without communication channels, also referred to as channel-less ICs. Embodiments may include overlay hard macros that support routing and communication design without dedicated communication channels being needed between functional hard macros, such as cores of a SOC. Various embodiments may include an IC in which one or more interconnect hard macros and wires connecting a first functional hard macro, a second functional hard macro and the one or more interconnect hard macros are located within a third functional hard macro. In some embodiments, no communication channel may be present between the first functional hard macro, the second functional hard macro, and the third functional hard macro.

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Vinod Kumar Lakshmipathi