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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2022
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Pin-Dai Sue, Hsinchu, TW;
Ting-Wei Chiang, Hsinchu, TW;
Hui-Zhong Zhuang, Hsinchu, TW;
Ya-Chi Chou, Hsinchu, TW;
Chi-Yu Lu, Hsinchu, TW;
TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD., Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A method of making an integrated circuit includes steps of selecting a first cell and a second cell for an integrated circuit layout from a cell library in an electronic design automation (EDA) system, the first and second cells each having a cell active area, a cell gate electrode, at least one fin of a first set of fins, and a cell border region, each cell also having the active area at an exposed side, and placing the first exposed side against the second exposed side at a cell border. The method also includes operations of aligning at least one fin of the first set of fins with at least one fin of the second set of fins across a cell border.