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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2017
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventor:
Qi-Zhong Hong, Richardson, TX (US);
Assignee:
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/44 (2006.01); G06F 17/50 (2006.01); H01L 23/522 (2006.01); H01L 23/528 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/5077 (2013.01); G06F 17/5072 (2013.01); G06F 17/5081 (2013.01); H01L 23/528 (2013.01); H01L 23/5226 (2013.01); G06F 2217/06 (2013.01); G06F 2217/12 (2013.01); H01L 2924/0002 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of operating a computer system to improve via electromigration in an integrated circuit with multilevel interconnect. A method of operating a computer system to improve via electromigration in an integrated circuit with multilevel interconnect using via priority groups.