Broadcom Corporation

Sumant Rangnathan

Pieter Vorenkamp

Tom W Kwan

Ning Li

Eric Bruce Blecker

Victor Chiu-Kit Fong

Chao Tang

The present invention provides several scalable integrated circuit high density capacitors and their layout techniques. The capacitors are scaled, for example, by varying the number of metal layers and/or the area of the metal layers used to from the capacitors. The capacitors use different metallization patterns to form the metal layers, and different via patterns to couple adjacent metal layers. In embodiments, optional shields are included as the top-most and/or bottom-most layers of the capacitors, and/or as side shields, to reduce unwanted parasitic capacitance.

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Sumant Rangnathan