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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2018
Pdf Solutions, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Stephen Lam, Freemont, CA (US);
Dennis Ciplickas, San Jose, CA (US);
Tomasz Brozek, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Jeremy Cheng, San Jose, CA (US);
Simone Comensoli, Darfo Boario Terme, IT;
Indranil De, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kelvin Doong, Hsinchu, TW;
Hans Eisenmann, Tutzing, DE;
Timothy Fiscus, New Galilee, PA (US);
Jonathan Haigh, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Christopher Hess, Belmont, CA (US);
John Kibarian, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Sherry Lee, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Marci Liao, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sheng-Che Lin, Hsinchu, TW;
Hideki Matsuhashi, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kimon Michaels, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Conor O'Sullivan, Campbell, CA (US);
Markus Rauscher, Munich, DE;
Vyacheslav Rovner, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Andrzej Strojwas, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Marcin Strojwas, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Carl Taylor, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Rakesh Vallishayee, Dublin, CA (US);
Larg Weiland, Hollister, CA (US);
Nobuharu Yokoyama, Tokyo, JP;
PDF Solutions, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An IC includes a contiguous standard cell area with first, second, and third TS-GATE-short-configured test area geometries disposed therein. In some embodiments, the contiguous standard cell area may further include: fourth and fifth TS-GATE-short-configured test area geometries, and/or other test area geometries, such as tip-to-tip-short, tip-to-side-short, diagonal-short, corner-short, interlayer-overlap-short, via-chamfer-short, merged-via-short, snake-open, stitch-open, via-open, or metal-island-open.