Integrated circuit device with interconnect-level logic diodes.

摘要

Logic circuitry is implemented in a semiconductor device using decoupling diodes formed between active areas at or between levels of interconnect formed above a monocrystalline semiconductor substrate. Schottky transistor logic and other forms of bipolar iogic can be fabricated with significant area reductions using output-decoupling diodes disposed at sites which are remote from the output nodes corresponding logic-gates.