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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2019
Applicant:
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Inventors:
Assignee:
TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD., Hsinchu, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 30/398 (2020.01); G03F 1/36 (2012.01); G06F 30/392 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 30/398 (2020.01); G03F 1/36 (2013.01); G06F 30/392 (2020.01);
Abstract
Disclosed are methods for designing semiconductor devices, conductive layer patterns, and interconnection layer patterns including the operations of analyzing an initial semiconductor design layout to identify excessive open spaces between adjacent conductive elements or lines within an interconnection layer pattern, selecting or generating a dummy pattern to fill a portion of the open space, and generating a modified semiconductor design layout that incorporates the dummy pattern into first interconnection layer pattern to reduce the open space.