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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2017
Applicant:
Globalfoundries Inc., Grand Cayman, KY;
Inventors:
Neha Nayyar, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Daniel J. Dechene, Watervliet, NY (US);
David C. Pritchard, Glenville, NY (US);
George J. Kluth, Saratoga Springs, NY (US);
Assignee:
GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC., Grand Cayman, KY;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 30/394 (2020.01); H01L 23/522 (2006.01); H01L 21/8234 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 30/394 (2020.01); H01L 23/5226 (2013.01); H01L 21/823475 (2013.01); H01L 21/823481 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to methodologies for designing semiconductor structures, and, more particularly, creating a methodology to connect contacts of semiconductor elements to a metal line using marker tabs to reserve space for future connections between the contacts and the metal line, and then reassigning the marker tabs to connections between the contacts and the metal line on different levels of a metal stack formed over the semiconductor elements.