Integrated circuit designed and manufactured using diagonal minimum-width patterns

摘要

An integrated circuit comprising a plurality of standard cell circuit elements is disclosed, wherein for at least one layer of the integrated circuit, a majority of minimum-width patterns are in a preferred diagonal orientation.

主权项

1. An integrated circuit comprising a physical design of a plurality of standard cell circuit elements, the physical design comprising:
a plurality of manhattan layers, wherein a majority of patterns on each manhattan layer of the standard cell physical design are manhattan patterns; and a designated layer comprising a plurality of minimum-width patterns, wherein a majority of the minimum-width patterns are diagonal patterns in a preferred diagonal direction with respect to the manhattan patterns, and wherein the designated layer is for purposes other than interconnections between different standard cells.