Soft configurable wafer scale integration: design, implementation and yield analysis

Abstract: "Soft-Configurable Wafer Scale Integration uses software controlled switches to connect up the fault-free parts of a wafer. Compared to hard configuration, the soft configurable approach has the advantages of providing low-cost connections and runtime fault tolerance. The dissertation...

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Main Author: Blatt, Miriam G. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. 1990
Series:Stanford University / Computer Science Department: Report STAN CS 1334
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Summary:Abstract: "Soft-Configurable Wafer Scale Integration uses software controlled switches to connect up the fault-free parts of a wafer. Compared to hard configuration, the soft configurable approach has the advantages of providing low-cost connections and runtime fault tolerance. The dissertation describes how to achieve soft configuration with high performance, presenting a pipelined memory system implemented using this approach. The yield of the prototype is evaluated in two phases. Fault simulation applies measured defect statistics to the layout to predict the yield of each circuit unit. These unit yields are combined to produce wafer yields using redundancy models appropriate to wafer scale integration
The redundancy models constrain wafer yield by system requirements such as the minimum number of working circuit units, and whether these working units are distributed evenly around the wafer. Choice of redundancy model significantly affects the resulting wafer yield.
Item Description:Zugl.: Stanford, Calif., Univ., Diss.
Physical Description:VII, 116 S.

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