Patents by Inventor Sanjay Dabral

Sanjay Dabral has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240103238
    Abstract: A system in package structure and method of fabrication using wafer reconstitution are described. In an embodiment a 3D system includes a mid-layer interposer a first package level underneath the mid-layer interposer and a second package level over the mid-layer interposer. Second package level components can be bonded to the mid-layer interposer with metal-metal bonds and optionally dielectric-dielectric bonds, while the first package level components can be bonded to the mid-layer interposer with dielectric-dielectric and optionally metal-metal bonds. Dies within the first and/or second package levels may optionally be connected with one or more optical interconnect paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Sanjay Dabral, SivaChandra Jangam
  • Publication number: 20240105699
    Abstract: A system in package structure and method of fabrication using wafer reconstitution are described. In an embodiment a 3D system includes a mid-layer interposer a first package level underneath the mid-layer interposer and a second package level over the mid-layer interposer. Second package level components can be bonded to the mid-layer interposer with metal-metal bonds and optionally dielectric-dielectric bonds, while the first package level components can be bonded to the mid-layer interposer with dielectric-dielectric and optionally metal-metal bonds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Sanjay Dabral, SivaChandra Jangam
  • Publication number: 20240105626
    Abstract: Semiconductor packages including local interconnects and methods of fabrication are described. In an embodiment, a local interconnect is fabricated with one or more cavities filled with a low-k material or air gap where a die-to-die routing path electrically connecting the first die and the second die includes the metal wire spanning across the one or more cavities. In other embodiments fanout can be utilized to create a wider bump pitch for the local interconnect, or for the local interconnect to connect core regions of the dies. Multiple local interconnects can also be utilized to scale down electrostatic discharge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Sanjay Dabral, Jun Zhai, Kunzhong Hu, SivaChandra Jangam, Zhitao Cao
  • Publication number: 20240105702
    Abstract: Semiconductor packages formed utilizing wafer reconstitution and optionally including an integrated heat spreader and methods of fabrication are described. In an embodiment, a semiconductor package includes a first package level, a second package level including one or more second-level chiplets, and a heat spreader bonded to the second package level with a metallic layer, which may include one or more intermetallic compounds formed by transient liquid phase bonding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Chonghua Zhong, Jiongxin Lu, Kunzhong Hu, Jun Zhai, Sanjay Dabral
  • Publication number: 20240105545
    Abstract: Semiconductor packages including an integrated heat spreader and methods of fabrication are described. In an embodiment, a semiconductor package includes a first package level, a second package level including one or more second-level chiplets, and a heat spreader bonded to the second package level with a metallic layer, which may include one or more intermetallic compounds formed by transient liquid phase bonding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Jiongxin Lu, Kunzhong Hu, Jun Zhai, Sanjay Dabral
  • Publication number: 20240105704
    Abstract: Semiconductor packages formed utilizing wafer reconstitution and optionally including an integrated heat spreader and methods of fabrication are described. In an embodiment, a semiconductor package includes a first package level, a second package level including one or more second-level chiplets. A heat spreader may be bonded to the second package level with a metallic layer, which may include one or more intermetallic compounds formed by transient liquid phase bonding. The chiplets within the first and/or second package levels may optionally be connected with one or more optical interconnect paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Chonghua Zhong, Jiongxin Lu, Kunzhong Hu, Jun Zhai, Sanjay Dabral
  • Publication number: 20240096648
    Abstract: Chip sealing designs to accommodate die-to-die communication are described. In an embodiment, a chip structure includes a split metallic seal structure including a lower metallic seal and an upper metallic seal with overlapping metallization layers, and a through seal interconnect navigating through the split metallic seal structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Sanjay Dabral, Chi Nung Ni, Long Huang, SivaChandra Jangam
  • Publication number: 20240088779
    Abstract: Increases in current drawn from power supply nodes in a computer system can result in unwanted drops in the voltages of the power supply nodes until power supply circuits can compensate for the increased load. To lessen the effects of increases in load currents, a decoupling circuit that includes a diode may be coupled to the power supply node. During a charge mode, a control circuit applies a current to the diode to store charge in the diode. During a boost mode, the control circuit can couple the diode to the power supply node. When the voltage level of the power supply node begins to drop, the diode can source a current to the power supply node using the previously stored charge. The diode may be directly coupled to the power supply node or be part of a switch-based system that employs multiple diodes to increase the discharge voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Chi Nung Ni, Sanjay Dabral
  • Publication number: 20240047353
    Abstract: Multi-die structures and methods of fabrication are described. In an embodiment, a multi-die structure includes a first die, a second die, and die-to-die routing connecting the first die to the second die. The die-to-die interconnection may be monolithically integrated as a chip-level die-to-die routing, or external package-level die-to-die routing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Sanjay Dabral, Jun Zhai, Jung-Cheng Yeh, Kunzhong Hu, Raymundo Camenforte, Thomas Hoffmann
  • Publication number: 20240038689
    Abstract: Chip sealing structures and methods of manufacture are described. In an embodiment, a chip structure includes a main body area formed of a substrate, a back-end-of-the-line (BEOL) build-up structure spanning over the substrate, and chip edge sidewalls extending from a back surface of the substrate to a top surface of the BEOL build-up structure and laterally surrounding the substrate and the BEOL build-up structure. In accordance with embodiments, the chip structure may further include a conformal sealing layer covering at least a first chip edge sidewall of the chip edge sidewalls and a portion of the top surface of the BEOL build-up structure, and forming a lip around the top surface of the BEOL build-up structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Vidhya Ramachandran, Sanjay Dabral, SivaChandra Jangam, Jun Zhai, Kunzhong Hu
  • Publication number: 20240039539
    Abstract: Multi-chip systems and structures for modular scaling are described. In some embodiments an interfacing bar is utilized to couple adjacent chips. For example, a communication bar may utilized to coupled logic chips, and memory bar may be utilized to couple multiple memory chips to a logic chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Sanjay Dabral, Bahattin Kilic, Jie-Hua Zhao, Kunzhong Hu, Suk-Kyu Ryu
  • Publication number: 20240014178
    Abstract: Stitched die packaging techniques and structures are described in which reconstituted chips are formed using wafer reconstitution and die-stitching techniques. In an embodiment, a chip includes a reconstituted chip-level back end of the line (BEOL) build-up structure to connect a die set embedded in an inorganic gap fill material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Sanjay Dabral, Jun Zhai, Kwan-Yu Lai, Kunzhong Hu, Vidhya Ramachandran
  • Patent number: 11862557
    Abstract: Multi-die structures and methods of fabrication are described. In an embodiment, a multi-die structure includes a first die, a second die, and die-to-die routing connecting the first die to the second die. The die-to-die interconnection may be monolithically integrated as a chip-level die-to-die routing, or external package-level die-to-die routing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sanjay Dabral, Jun Zhai, Jung-Cheng Yeh, Kunzhong Hu, Raymundo Camenforte, Thomas Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 11862481
    Abstract: Chip sealing designs to accommodate die-to-die communication are described. In an embodiment, a chip structure includes a split metallic seal structure including a lower metallic seal and an upper metallic seal with overlapping metallization layers, and a through seal interconnect navigating through the split metallic seal structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sanjay Dabral, Chi Nung Ni, Long Huang, SivaChandra Jangam
  • Publication number: 20230402373
    Abstract: Multi-die structures with die-to-die routing are described. In an embodiment, each die is patterned into the same semiconductor substrate, and the dies may be interconnected with die-to-die routing during back-end wafer processing. Partial metallic seals may be formed to accommodate the die-to-die routing, programmable dicing, and various combinations of full metallic seals and partial metallic seals can be formed. This may also be extended to three dimensional structures formed using wafer-on-wafer or chip-on-wafer techniques.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Sanjay Dabral, Jun Zhai, Kunzhong Hu, Raymundo M. Camenforte
  • Patent number: 11831312
    Abstract: Multi-chip systems and structures for modular scaling are described. In some embodiments an interfacing bar is utilized to couple adjacent chips. For example, a communication bar may utilized to coupled logic chips, and memory bar may be utilized to couple multiple memory chips to a logic chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sanjay Dabral, Bahattin Kilic, Jie-Hua Zhao, Kunzhong Hu, Suk-Kyu Ryu
  • Patent number: 11824015
    Abstract: Chip sealing structures and methods of manufacture are described. In an embodiment, a chip structure includes a main body area formed of a substrate, a back-end-of-the-line (BEOL) build-up structure spanning over the substrate, and chip edge sidewalls extending from a back surface of the substrate to a top surface of the BEOL build-up structure and laterally surrounding the substrate and the BEOL build-up structure. In accordance with embodiments, the chip structure may further include a conformal sealing layer covering at least a first chip edge sidewall of the chip edge sidewalls and a portion of the top surface of the BEOL build-up structure, and forming a lip around the top surface of the BEOL build-up structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vidhya Ramachandran, Sanjay Dabral, SivaChandra Jangam, Jun Zhai, Kunzhong Hu
  • Patent number: 11811303
    Abstract: Increases in current drawn from power supply nodes in a computer system can result in unwanted drops in the voltages of the power supply nodes until power supply circuits can compensate for the increased load. To lessen the effects of increases in load currents, a decoupling circuit that includes a diode may be coupled to the power supply node. During a charge mode, a control circuit applies a current to the diode to store charge in the diode. During a boost mode, the control circuit can couple the diode to the power supply node. When the voltage level of the power supply node begins to drop, the diode can source a current to the power supply node using the previously stored charge. The diode may be directly coupled to the power supply node or be part of a switch-based system that employs multiple diodes to increase the discharge voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chi Nung Ni, Sanjay Dabral
  • Publication number: 20230335494
    Abstract: Electronic package structures and systems are described in which a 3D interconnect structure is integrated into a package redistribution layer and/or chiplet for power and signal delivery to a die. Such structures may significantly improve input output (TO) density and routing quality for signals, while keeping power delivery feasible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Sanjay Dabral, Zhitao Cao, Kunzhong Hu, Jun Zhai
  • Publication number: 20230299007
    Abstract: Multi-chip modules and methods of fabrication are described. The MCM may include a plurality of dies in which die-to-die routing can be partitioned within multiple metal routing layers for shorter die-to-die routings, while longer die-to-die routing can be routed primarily in a single metal routing layer. The plurality of dies may also be arranged in a spaced apart relationship to accommodate additional wiring area, while preserving direct routing areas for the longer die-to-die routing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Sanjay Dabral, Ravindranath T. Kollipara