Patent ID: 7384804

Claim:
A method for electronically aligning mini-bars on different semiconductor chips which are situated face-to-face to facilitate communication between the semiconductor chips through capacitive coupling, the method comprising: measuring an alignment between a first chip and a second chip; selecting a group of transmitter mini-bars on the first chip to form a transmitter bit position based on the measured alignment, thereby allowing a data signal to be distributed to and transmitted by the mini-bars within the transmitter bit position; selecting a group of receiver mini-bars on the second chip to form a receiver bit position based on the measured alignment; and associating transmitter bit positions on the first chip with proximate receiver bit positions on the second chip based on the measured alignment, thereby allowing data signals transmitted by the mini-bars that form a transmitter bit position on the first chip to be collectively received by the mini-bars within an associated receiver bit position on the second chip.