International Business Machines Corporation

Joseph Leonard Metz

David James Hathaway

Douglas Wayne Kemerer

William John Livingstone

Daniel Joseph Mainiero

Jeannie Therese Harrigan Panner

Jeannie Therese Panner

An integrated circuit chip having at least one source pin and a plurality of sink pins. A wire segment connects the source pin to at least one of the sink pins and includes at least two segments where one of the segments is larger than the other where electromigration is likely to occur.

Semiconductor wiring technique for reducing electromigration

A method for wiring IC chips such that electromigration criteria are met while minimizing the effect on overall chip wireability. A technique to optimize the width of automatically routed wire segments so that these widths are adequate to support the electromigration current on that net as a function of the capacitive loading of the net itself.

Wiring design tool improvement for avoiding electromigration by

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Joseph Leonard Metz