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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2023
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Brian C. Gaide, Erie, CO (US);
XILINX, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A 3D stacked device includes a plurality of semiconductor chips stacked in a vertical direction. The semiconductor chips each include a plurality of portions grouped into slivers according to the column they lie in. Each of the portions further includes a plurality of blocks grouped into sub-slivers and interconnected by inter-block bridges. A block that must be functional on the bottommost chip of the 3D stacked device is configured to bypass a neighboring nonfunctional block on the same chip by using a communication path of an inter-block bridge to a neighboring functional block that is in the same sub-sliver as the nonfunctional block but in a different chip. So long as only one of the blocks in a sub-sliver is nonfunctional, the inter-block bridges permit the other blocks in the sub-sliver to receive and route data.