Patent ID: 9337122
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: G02B,G06F,H01L

Claim Text:
1. A hardware description language (“HDL”) design structure encoded on a non-transitory machine-readable data storage medium, the HDL design structure comprising elements that, when processed in a computer-aided design system, generate a machine-executable representation of an integrated circuitry structure for designing, manufacturing, or testing an integrated circuit, wherein the HDL design structure comprises: an optical layer comprising optical waveguides within a first material having a first thermal conductivity, the optical waveguides bundled into a plurality of sets of closely spaced optical waveguides situated substantially throughout a thermal zone within the integrated circuit structure having high thermal activity, and each optical waveguide further individually spaced further apart substantially throughout a non-thermal zone within the integrated circuit structure having low thermal activity; and a heat-conductive material, having a second thermal conductivity greater than the first thermal conductivity, disposed between the sets of bundled optical waveguides in the first material of the thermal zone, for transferring heat from at least the thermal zone through the optical layer to a heat sink located above the optical layer.