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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2007
Filed:
May. 02, 2005
Scott C. Savage, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Robert D. Waldron, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Donald T. Mcgrath, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Kenneth G. Richardson, Erie, CO (US);
Scott C. Savage, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Robert D. Waldron, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Donald T. McGrath, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Kenneth G. Richardson, Erie, CO (US);
LSI Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for interconnecting sub-functions of metal-mask programmable functions that includes the steps of (A) forming a base layer of a platform application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) comprising a plurality of pre-diffused regions disposed around a periphery of the platform ASIC, (B) forming two or more sub-functions of a function with a metal mask set placed over a number of the plurality of pre-diffused regions of the platform application specific integrated circuit and (C) configuring one or more connection points in each of the two or more sub-functions such that interconnections between the two or more sub-functions are tool routable in a single layer. Each of the pre-diffused regions is configured to be metal-programmable.