Constant-distance structure polycellular very large scale integrated circuit.

摘要

A polycellular data processing very large scale integrated circuit formed over the entire surface of a semiconductor wafer 12 whereon a plurality of data processing cells 14 are interconnectable from neighbour to neighbour starting at a port 16 to make an overall operational circuit, comprises cells of a first type 14 and cells of a second type 14X each having four coupling section 20 and four link sections, together with a data processing element, the cells of a first type 14 having the data processing element 22 associated with the coupling section 20 in the opposite diagonal corner to the coupling section 20 with which the data processing element 22 in the cells of the second type 14X is associated, the cells of the first and second types being arranged in alternate diagonal rows on the wafer 12 such that the distance between data processing elements 22 in adjacent cells 14, 14X is rendered constant irrespectively of which neighbour a cell 14 14X couples to.