Patent ID: 8701057

Claim:
A method comprising: predicting an initially demand for each of a plurality of selectable grouping of a modular circuit of an integrated circuit prior to fabricating the integrated circuit; designing the integrated circuit including the plurality of selectable groupings of a modular circuit based upon the predicted initial demand; laying out the designed integrated circuit including scribe boundaries between particular groupings of the modular circuit, and routing the interconnects and vias between modular circuits that cross the scribe boundaries between the particular groupings of the modular circuit in the last one or more metallization layers to be fabricated; fabricating the integrated circuit on one or more wafers accordingly to the layout up to but not including fabricating the interconnects and vias; predicting a revised demand for each of the plurality of selectable groupings of the modular circuit during fabrication of the integrated circuit up to but not including the interconnects and vias; selecting one or more of the plurality of groupings of the modular circuit based upon the predicted revised demand; fabricating a subset of the interconnects and vias of the integrated circuit according to the layout of the selected one or more groupings of the modular circuit; and singulating the wafer into a plurality of integrated circuit die according to the layout of the selected one or more groupings of the modular circuit.