Patent ID: 7248757
Filing Date: 2007-07-24
Classification: G02B,G06F,H01L

Abstract:
1. A method of designing a circuit having electric wires and optical connections, said method comprising at least: a first step of generating a circuit connection list; a second step of generating a list of connections to be carried by electronic circuits that are referred to as electric nets and a list of connections to be carried by optical connections that are referred to as optical nets from the circuit connection list; a third step of designing placements of parts and electric wiring according to the electric nets; and a fourth step of designing optical connections according to the optical nets, wherein said circuit having electric wires and optical connections has a package structure including a plurality of semiconductor chips, an electric wiring layer and an optical connection layer, and at least two of the semiconductor chips are optically interconnected by way of the optical connection layer, and said semiconductor chips have reconfigurable circuits so that it is possible to alter the internal configurations of the semiconductor chips and additionally alter the optical connections among the semiconductor chips by way of said optical connection layer.