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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2018
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Thomas J. Aton, Dallas, TX (US);
Roger Mark Terry, Allen, TX (US);
Robert L. Pitts, Dallas, TX (US);
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
Integrated circuit () includes substrate () with surface () and structure () including base levels (.(+1)), terminating cells (), and block () of standard cells arranged in rows (.(+1)), and another type of block () outside block (). Standard cells at at least two edges of block () have the following protections: (1) block () has strip of separation () having at least a minimum width from the edges of block (), and protected by one of the following: (2) terminating cells () reduce context effect and some terminating cells () are placed at at least one end of rows (.(+1)) of standard cells within first-named block (), and () the terminating cells () reduce context effect and some terminating cells () are at one end of a column of standard cells within block (). Other structures, devices, and processes are also disclosed.