Patent ID: 7737564

Claim:
A universal bond pad system for electrically coupling a bond pad of a configurable integrated circuit to an input/output device comprising: an input/output device with at least one pin and at least one slice, the at least one pin including at least one of: an input/output power supply pin, an input/output core power supply pin, an input/output ground supply pin, and an input/output core ground supply pin, and the at least one slice including an input/output signal slice; a bond pad with at least two layers; and an interconnect structure for electrically coupling at least one layer of the at least two layers to the input/output device, wherein the bond pad is configurable as at least two selected from the group of bond pad configurations consisting of: a power pad by being electrically coupleable via the interconnect structure to the input/output power supply pin of the at least one pin of the input/output device, a core power pad by being electrically coupleable via the interconnect structure to the input/output core power supply pin of the at least one pin of the input/output device, an input/output signal pad by being electrically coupleable via the interconnect structure to the input/output signal slice of the at least one slice of the input/output device, a ground pad by being electrically coupleable via the interconnect structure to the input/output ground supply pin of the at least one pin of the input/output device, or a core ground pad by being electrically coupleable via the interconnect structure to the input/output core ground supply pin of the at least one pin of the input/output device, wherein the bond pad configuration is determined by which pin of the at least one pin is electrically coupled to the bond pad and which slice of the at least one slice is electrically coupled to the input/output device.