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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2015
Applicant:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Andy Yang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Benjamin Iver Gribstad, Mountain View, CA (US);
Don Stark, Mountain View, CA (US);
Shahriar Rabii, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Srenik Mehta, Freemon, CA (US);
Assignee:
GOOGLE INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/66 (2006.01); H01L 21/82 (2006.01); H01L 21/768 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 22/10 (2013.01); H01L 21/76892 (2013.01); H01L 21/82 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method includes forming an integrated circuit device having device circuitry disposed in a device circuitry area on a substrate and a destroyable circuit formed in a destroyable circuitry area on the substrate; testing at least one operational aspect of the device circuitry using the destroyable circuit; and destroying the destroyable circuit subsequent to testing the at least one operational aspect of the device circuitry.