Patent ID: 9501603
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer program product for adding an electrical interconnection within a three-dimensional integrated circuit (3-D IC), the computer program product comprising: a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon: program instructions executable by one or more processor circuits to cause the one or more processor circuits to: said program instructions are executable to further cause the one or more processor circuits to create a region of locations wherein each of the locations has a distance, from signal nets belonging to at least one of a group of types consisting of: data, control logic, clock and power distribution, that is less than or equal to a specified maximum distance, and to place at least one TSV reservation area of the set of TSV reservation areas within the region, and to create, in response to a ratio of a number of signal nets to a number of TSV reservation areas and within the region of locations, design data corresponding to a number of TSV reservation areas.