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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2019
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 encoded with a first set of standard cell layouts and a second set of standard cell layouts both being configured to perform a predetermined function. The predetermined manufacturing process having a nominal minimum pitch (T) of metal lines. Each standard cell layout of the first set of standard cell layouts and the second set of standard cell layouts having a cell height (H) wherein the cell height is a non-integral multiple of the nominal minimum pitch. A hardware processor communicatively is coupled with the non-transitory storage medium and is configured to execute a set of instructions for generating an integrated circuit layout based on the first set of standard cell layouts, the second set of standard cell layouts and the nominal minimum pitch; and creating a data file corresponding to the integrated circuit layout.