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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 11, 2017
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jagadish Hosmani, San Diego, CA (US);

Mohammed Yousuff Shariff, San Diego, CA (US);

Venugopal Sanaka, San Diego, CA (US);

Huibo Hou, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/50 (2006.01); H01L 23/528 (2006.01); H01L 27/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/5077 (2013.01); G06F 17/5068 (2013.01); G06F 17/5072 (2013.01); H01L 23/5286 (2013.01); H01L 27/0207 (2013.01); G06F 2217/08 (2013.01); G06F 2217/78 (2013.01); H02J 3/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a metal only cell-based power grid (PG) architecture. In accordance with one aspect, the power gird (PG) architecture includes a cell building block structure with a N×M grid configuration including N cell building blocks arranged in a first direction and M cell building blocks arranged in a second direction, wherein the first direction and the second direction are orthogonal to one another; and a plurality of power grid (PG) cells, wherein each of the N cell building blocks and each of the M cell building blocks are occupied by a PG cell of the plurality of PG cells.


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