Patent ID: 8166644

Claim:
A method for manufacturing an apparatus for facilitating capacitive communication between integrated circuit chips, the method comprising: creating a substrate with an active face upon which active circuitry and signal pads reside, and a back face opposite the active face; creating a first integrated circuit chip with an active face upon which active circuitry and signal pads reside, and a back face opposite the active face; pressing the first integrated circuit chip against the substrate such that the active face of the first integrated circuit chip is parallel to and adjacent to the active face of the substrate, and capacitive signal pads on the active face of the first integrated circuit chip overlap signal pads on the active face of the substrate; and electrically coupling a signal pad on the active face of the substrate to a non-adjacent signal pad on the active face of the substrate, wherein the non-adjacent signal pad overlaps a signal pad on the active face of a third integrated circuit chip that is non-adjacent to the first integrated circuit chip, thereby allowing the first integrated circuit chip to communicate with the third integrated circuit chip.