PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16159703
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["257", "774000"]

Abstract:
Some embodiments of the invention provide a three-dimensional (3D) circuit that is formed by vertically stacking two or more integrated circuit (IC) dies to at least partially overlap. In this arrangement, several circuit blocks defined on each die (1) overlap with other circuit blocks defined on one or more other dies, and (2) electrically connect to these other circuit blocks through connections that cross one or more bonding layers that bond one or more pairs of dies. In some embodiments, the overlapping, connected circuit block pairs include pairs of computation blocks and pairs of computation and memory blocks. The connections that cross bonding layers to electrically connect circuit blocks on different dies are referred to below as z-axis wiring or connections. This is because these connections traverse completely or mostly in the z-axis of the 3D circuit, with the x-y axes of the 3D circuit defining the planar surface of the IC die substrate or interconnect layers. These connections are also referred to as vertical connections to differentiate them from the horizontal planar connections along the interconnect layers of the IC dies.

Claim (Index 13):
The 3D circuit of  claim 1 , wherein\n the compute circuit is a first compute circuit, the memory is a first memory, and the plurality of connections is a first plurality of connections, the first IC die further comprises a second compute circuit, and the second IC die further comprises a second memory that at least partially overlaps the second compute circuit, the 3D circuit comprising a second plurality of connections crossing the bonding layer to connect nodes in overlapping portions of the second memory and the second compute circuit to to carry signals between the second compute circuit and the second memory, at least two connections in the second plurality of connections having a center-to-center pitch that is less than 5 microns.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18478
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16159704', '16159705', '15976827', '15976817', '15976815']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9346301051147866
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5694190073247074
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8981089953357787
- Mean Citation Score: 388.530398
- Max Citation Score: 466.17822
- Similarity Product: 381.6080998438418

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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