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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
May. 22, 2017
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Shang-Chih Hsieh, Yangmei, TW;
Hui-Zhong Zhuang, Kaohsiung, TW;
Ting-Wei Chiang, New Taipei, TW;
Chun-Fu Chen, Chiayi, TW;
Hsiang-Jen Tseng, Hsinchu, TW;
TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD., Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
An integrated circuit designing system includes a non-transitory storage medium and a hardware processor. The non-transitory storage medium is encoded with a layout of a standard cell corresponding to a predetermined manufacturing process. The predetermined manufacturing process has a nominal minimum pitch, along a predetermined direction, of metal lines. The layout of the standard cell has a cell height along the predetermined direction, and the cell height is a non-integral multiple of the nominal minimum pitch. The hardware processor communicatively coupled with the non-transitory storage medium and configured to execute a set of instructions for generating an integrated circuit layout based on the layout of the standard cell and the nominal minimum pitch.