IP Library Patent Application 12577532
Patent Application
App. No. 12/577,532

METHOD FOR FABRICATION OF A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND STRUCTURE

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App. No.
12/577,532
Abstract

A method is presented that may be used to provide a Configurable Logic device, which may be Field Programmable with volume flexibility. A method of fabricating an integrated circuit may include the steps of: providing a semiconductor substrate and forming a borderless logic array, and it may also include the step of forming a plurality of antifuse configurable interconnect circuits and/or a plurality of transistors to configure at least one antifuse. The programming transistors may be fabricated over the at least one antifuse.

Claims (27)

1 . A programmable logic device comprising:

a first single crystal silicon layer; and

a second thin single crystal silicon layer of less than 10 micron thickness overlying said first single crystal silicon layer,

wherein said second thin single crystal silicon layer comprises a plurality of transistors forming programmable logic.

2 . A programmable logic device according to claim 1 wherein said programmable logic comprises antifuses and said first single crystal silicon layer comprises transistors for programming at least one of said antifuses.

3 . A semiconductor device comprising:

a first single crystal silicon layer; and

a second thin single crystal silicon layer of less than 10 micron thickness overlying said first single crystal silicon layer,

wherein said second thin single crystal silicon layer comprises a plurality of first transistors forming device circuitry, and

said first single crystal silicon layer comprises a plurality of second transistors forming at least a portion of input/output circuitry for the device,

wherein the second transistors are larger than the first transistors.

4 . A programmable logic device comprising:

a first crystallized silicon layer; and

a second thin single crystal silicon layer of less than 10 micron thickness overlying said first single crystal silicon layer,

wherein said first single crystal silicon layer comprises a plurality of transistors forming programmable logic.

5 . A programmable logic device according to claim 4 wherein said programmable logic comprises antifuses and said second thin single crystal silicon layer comprises transistors for programming at least one of said antifuses.

6 . A semiconductor device comprising:

a first single crystal silicon layer having a plurality of first transistors and multiple metal layers on top of said first transistors forming device circuitry; and

a second thin single crystal silicon layer of less than 2 micron thickness overlying said first single crystal silicon layer,

wherein said second thin single crystal silicon layer comprises a plurality of second transistors electrically connected to said first transistors,

wherein said second transistors are defined by etching said second thin single crystal silicon layer after overlaying said second thin single crystal silicon layer on said first single crystal silicon layer, and

wherein said second transistors each have a source and a drain in one sub-layer of said second thin crystal silicon layer.

7 . A semiconductor device comprising:

a first single crystal silicon layer comprising a plurality of first transistors and multiple metal layers on top of said first transistors forming device circuitry, said multiple metal layers having an upper first top metal layer, wherein at least one of said multiple metal layers has a temperature limit of approximately 400° C.; and

a second thin single crystal silicon layer of less than 2 micron thickness overlying said multiple metal layers,

wherein said second thin single crystal silicon layer comprising a plurality of second transistors is offset less than 100 nm to said first top metal layer, and

wherein said second transistors each have a source and a drain in one sub-layer of said second thin crystal silicon layer.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 1, 2013
From: OR-BACH, ZVI
To: MONOLITHIC 3D INC.
Reel/Frame 029741/0195 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 16, 2011
From: NUPGA CORPORATION
To: MONOLITHIC 3D INC.
Reel/Frame 025968/0910 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 11, 2009
From: OR-BACH, ZVI; CRONQUIST, BRIAN; WURMAN, ZEEV; ARGHAVANI, REZA; BEINGLASS, ISRAEL
To: NUPGA CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 023500/0777 →