Summary: Architectural Implications of Brick and Mortar
Silicon Manufacturing
Martha Mercaldi Kim
Mojtaba Mehrara
Mark Oskin
Todd Austin

Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
{mercaldi,oskin}@cs.washington.edu

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
{mehrara,austin}@umich.edu
ABSTRACT
We introduce a novel chip fabrication technique called "brick and
mortar", in which chips are made from small, pre-fabricated ASIC
bricks and bonded in a designer-specified arrangement to an inter-

Source: Anderson, Richard - Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington at Seattle
Austin, Todd M. - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences; Engineering