Qualcomm Incorporated

Mickael Malabry

Hyeokjin Lim

Xiangdong Chen

Ohsang Kwon

Mukul Gupta

Michael J Brunolli

Venugopal Boynapalli

Animesh Datta

Seid Hadi Rasouli

Satyanarayana Sahu

Kamesh Medisetti

Christine Sung-An Hau-Riege

Nikolay Bomshtein

Prathiba Balasubramanian

Sucheta Kumar Harish

Haining S Yang

Kern Rim

Stanley Seungchul Song

Foua Vang

Qi Ye

Zhengyu Duan

Raymond George Stephany

Lavakumar Ranganathan

Hadi Bunnalim

Jingwei Zhang

Robert Kim

Lesly Zaren V Endrinal

Rami Salem

Hyeokjin Bruce Lim

Michael Joseph Brunolli

A CMOS device with a plurality of PMOS transistors each having a PMOS drain and a plurality of NMOS transistors each having an NMOS drain includes a first interconnect and a second interconnect. The first interconnect is on an interconnect level extending in a length direction to connect the PMOS drains together, and the second interconnect is on the interconnect level extending in the length direction to connect the NMOS drains together. A set of interconnects on at least one additional interconnect level physically couple the first interconnect and the second interconnect to an output of the CMOS device. A third interconnect on the interconnect level extends perpendicular to the length direction and offset from the set of interconnects. The third interconnect is capable of flowing current from the PMOS drains or from the NMOS drains to the output of the CMOS device.

Layout construction for addressing electromigration

A MOS device of an IC includes pMOS and nMOS transistors. The MOS device further includes a first Mlayer interconnect extending in a first direction and coupling the pMOS and nMOS transistor drains together, and a second Mlayer interconnect extending in the first direction and coupling the pMOS and nMOS transistor drains together. The first and second Mlayer interconnects are parallel. The MOS device further includes a first Mlayer interconnect extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The first Mlayer interconnect is coupled to the first Mlayer interconnect and the second Mlayer interconnect. The MOS device further includes a second Mlayer interconnect extending in the second direction. The second Mlayer interconnect is coupled to the first Mlayer interconnect and the second Mlayer interconnect. The second Mlayer interconnect is parallel to the first Mlayer interconnect.

Multiple via structure for high performance standard cells

Metal oxide semiconductor device of an integrated circuit

A MOS IC includes a first standard cell including first and second power rails, first and second active regions, and a plurality of metal interconnects. The first power rail extends in a first direction and provides a first voltage to the first standard cell. The second power rail extends in the first direction and provides a second voltage to the first standard cell. The first active region is between the first and second power rails on a first side of the first standard cell. The second active region is between the first and second power rails on a second side of the first standard cell. The second active region is separated from the first active region. The plurality of metal interconnects extend in a second direction between the first and second active regions and between the first and second power rails. The second direction is orthogonal to the first direction.

Visible alignment markers/landmarks for CAD-to-silicon backside image alignment

A CMOS device with a plurality of PMOS transistors and a plurality of NMOS transistors includes a first interconnect and a second interconnect on an interconnect level connecting a first subset and a second subset of PMOS drains together, respectively. The first and second subsets are different and the first and second interconnect are disconnected on the interconnect level. A third interconnect and a fourth interconnect on the interconnect level connect a first subset and a second subset of the NMOS drains together, respectively. The third interconnect and the fourth interconnect are disconnected on the interconnect level. The first, second, third, fourth interconnects are coupled together through at least one other interconnect level. Additional interconnects on the interconnect level connect the first and third interconnects together, and the second and fourth interconnects together, to provide parallel current paths with a current path through the at least one other interconnect level.

In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus for assigning feature colors for a multiple patterning process are provided. The apparatus receives integrated circuit layout information including a set of features and an assigned color of a plurality of colors for each feature of a first subset of features of the set of features. In addition, the apparatus performs color decomposition on a second subset of features to assign colors to features in the second subset of features. The second subset of features includes features in the set of features that are not included in the first subset of features with an assigned color.

Hybrid coloring methodology for multi-pattern technology

A CMOS device with a plurality of PMOS transistors each having a PMOS drain and a plurality of NMOS transistors each having an NMOS drain includes a first interconnect on an interconnect level extending in a length direction to connect the PMOS drains together. A second interconnect on the interconnect level extends in the length direction to connect the NMOS drains together. A set of interconnects on at least one additional interconnect level couple the first interconnect and the second interconnect together. A third interconnect on the interconnect level extends perpendicular to the length direction and is offset from the set of interconnects to connect the first interconnect and the second interconnect together.

In certain aspects, a semiconductor die includes a power rail, a first gate, and a second gate. The semiconductor die also includes a first gate contact electrically coupled to the first gate, wherein the first gate contact is formed from a first middle of line (MOL) metal layer, and a second gate contact electrically coupled to the second gate, wherein the second gate contact is formed from the first MOL metal layer. The semiconductor die further includes an interconnect formed from a second MOL metal layer, wherein the interconnect is electrically coupled to the first and second gate contacts, and at least a portion of the interconnect is underneath the power rail.

Power rail inbound middle of line (MOL) routing

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