Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Sang-Kyu Oh

Sang-Hoon Baek

Jung-Ho Do

Seung-Young Lee

Sun-Young Park

Sanghoon Baek

Taejoong Song

Tae-Joong Song

Ha-Young Kim

Jae-Ho Park

Moo-Gyu Bae

Hyo-Sig Won

Seolun Yang

Sunyoung Park

Hyosig Won

Jintae Kim

Chul-hong Park

Seung-Jae Jung

Kwanyoung Chun

Giyoung Yang

Gi-young Yang

Sung-Wook Ahn

Jin-Hyun Noh

Kyoung-Yun Baek

Yongwoo Jeon

Su-Hyeon Kim

Kang-Hyun Baek

Kang-hyun Baek

Na-Ya Ha

Seung-Weon Paek

A system on chip includes first to third nanowires extending in a second direction, first to third gate lines respectively surrounding the first to third nanowires, each of the first to third gate lines extending in a first direction across the second direction, a gate isolation region cutting the first to third gate lines and extending in the second direction, a first gate contact formed on the second gate line arranged between the first gate line and the third gate line, and electrically connecting the cut second gate line, a second gate contact formed on the first gate line, a third gate contact formed on the third gate line, a first metal line electrically connecting the second gate contact and the third gate contact; and a second metal line electrically connected to the first gate contact.

System on chip

A method is provided. The method includes forming a first to third gate lines on a substrate, the second gate line formed between the first and third gate lines; forming a gate isolation region to cut the first to third gate lines into two first sub gate lines, two second sub gate lines and two third sub gate lines, respectively; forming a first gate contact on one of the two first sub gate lines; forming a second gate contact on the two second sub gate lines; forming a third gate contact on one of the two third sub gate lines; forming a first metal line to connect the first and third gate contacts; and forming a second metal line. The first to third gate lines extend in a first direction, and the gate isolation region extends in a second direction different from the first direction.

A method of fabricating a semiconductor device having a first region, a second region, and a third region between the first and second regions includes forming first and second preliminary active patterns protruding from a substrate in the first and second regions, respectively, forming mask patterns exposing the third region on the substrate, performing a first etching process using the mask patterns an etch mask to form first and second active patterns, respectively, and forming gate structures on the substrate.

Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same

Systems on chips are provided. A system on chip (SoC) includes a first gate line, a second gate line and a third gate line extending in a first direction, a gate isolation region cutting the first gate line, the second gate line and the third gate line and extending in a second direction across the first direction, a first gate contact formed on the second gate line arranged between the first gate line and the third gate line, and electrically connecting the cut second gate line, a second gate contact formed on the first gate line, a third gate contact formed on the third gate line, a first metal line electrically connecting the second gate contact and the third gate contact, and a second metal line electrically connected to the first gate contact.

A method of manufacturing an integrated circuit, a system for carrying out the method, and a system for verifying an integrated circuit may use a standard cell layout including a first layout region that may violate design rules. The method for designing an integrated circuit may comprise receiving a data file that includes a scaling enhanced circuit layout, and designing a first standard cell layout using design rules and the data file. The designing the first standard cell layout may include designing a first layout region of the first standard cell layout using the data file, and designing a second region of the first standard cell layout using the design rules.

Method for designing and manufacturing an integrated circuit, system for carrying out the method, and system for verifying an integrated circuit

An integrated circuit (IC) may include at least one cell including a plurality of conductive lines that extend in a first direction and are in parallel to each other in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction, first contacts respectively disposed at two sides of at least one conductive line from among the plurality of conductive lines, and a second contact disposed on the at least one conductive line and the first contacts and forming a single node by being electrically connected to the at least one conductive line and the first contacts.

Integrated circuit, semiconductor device based on integrated circuit, and standard cell library

A method of designing a semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) is provided as follows. A standard cell library is generated. The standard cell library includes characteristic information for a plurality of standard cells. The characteristic information includes a characteristic of each standard cell. A characteristic change region is detected. The characteristic change region includes at least one of the plurality of standard cells by comparing characteristics of standard cells to be placed adjacent to the characteristic change region, based on the standard cell library. A characteristic of the at least one standard cell included in the detected characteristic change region is changed to one of the characteristics of the standard cells to be placed adjacent to the characteristic change region to update the standard cell library. A plurality of standard cells of the updated standard cell library is placed.

Standard cell library, method of using the same, and method of designing semiconductor integrated circuit

A method of generating a photo mask for use during fabrication of a semiconductor device includes; generating an initial layout design including critical circuit paths and non-critical circuit paths by shielding all gate line patterns used to implement transistors in the critical circuits and non-critical circuits, and thereafter generating a layout design from the initial layout design by selectively un-shielding a non-critical gate line pattern among the gate line patterns used to implement a gate of a non-critical transistor in a non-critical circuit, while retaining the shielding of all critical gate line patterns among the gate line patterns.

Integrated circuit layout design system and method

Provided is a method of fabricating a semiconductor device with a field effect transistor. The method may include forming a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode extending substantially parallel to each other and each crossing a PMOSFET region on a substrate and an NMOSFET region on the substrate; forming an interlayered insulating layer covering the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode; patterning the interlayered insulating layer to form a first sub contact hole on the first gate electrode, the first sub contact hole being positioned between the PMOSFET region and the NMOSFET region, when viewed in a plan view; and patterning the interlayered insulating layer to form a first gate contact hole and to expose a top surface of the second gate electrode, wherein the first sub contact hole and the first gate contact hole form a single communication hole.

A layout design system includes a processor; a storage unit configured to store a first unit design having a first area, wherein in the first unit design, a termination is not placed on a border thereof; and a design module configured to generate a second unit design having a second area larger than the first area by placing the termination on a border of the first unit.

Layout design system, method, and semiconductor device employing termination-free unit designs

A semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) may comprise at least one cell comprising at least one fin field-effect transistor (FET). The at least one cell may comprise a plurality of fins that extend in a first direction and are arranged in parallel to each other in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction. A size of the at least one cell in the second direction may correspond to a number and a pitch of the plurality of fins.

Cells including at least one fin field effect transistor and semiconductor integrated circuits including the same

A layout design system for designing a semiconductor device includes a processor, a storage module storing an intermediate design, and a correction module used by the processor to correct the intermediate design. The intermediate design includes an active region and dummy designs on the active region. Each dummy design includes a dummy structure and dummy spacers disposed at opposite sides of the dummy structure. The correction module is configured to alter widths of regions of at least some of the dummy designs. The corrected design is used to produce a semiconductor device having an active fin, a hard mask layer disposed on the active fin, a gate structure crossing the over the hard mask layer, and a spacer disposed on at least one side of the gate structure. The hard mask layer, and the active fin, are provided with widths that vary due to the dummy designs.

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