Patent ID: 8890143

Claim:
An apparatus comprising an integrated circuit (IC) product, the IC product comprising: a first IC chip having first IC chip contacts; a second IC chip having second IC chip contacts; and a substrate, wherein the substrate comprises: a plurality of substrate contacts; a first set of IC interconnects, wherein the first set of IC interconnects couple the first IC chip contacts to a first set of the plurality of substrate contacts; and a second set of IC interconnects, wherein the second set of IC interconnects couple the second IC chip contacts to a second set of the plurality of substrate contacts; wherein the first IC chip corresponds to a first IC design that is removable from the IC product during a design phase of the IC product without impacting functionality of the second IC chip, wherein the second IC chip corresponds to a second IC design that is removable from the IC product during the design phase of the IC product without impacting functionality of the first IC chip, and wherein at least one substrate contact is within the first set of the plurality of substrate contacts and the second set of the plurality of substrate contacts.