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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2023
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Rasit Onur Topaloglu, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Leon Sigal, Monsey, NY (US);
Henry A. Bonges, III, Milton, VT (US);
Robert Arelt, Pleasant Valley, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Yielding and routable circuit co-design using viabars, including: creating, in a first metal layer of an integrated circuit design, a first interconnect having a slack portion vertically coinciding with a second interconnect of a second metal layer of the integrated circuit design; creating, in the integrated circuit design, a first via interconnecting the first interconnect and the second interconnect; determining, after block-level signal routing of the integrated circuit design and based on one or more design rules, that the first via can be extended into the slack portion; and extending, based on the determination that the first via can be extended, the first via into a viabar interconnecting the first metal layer and the second metal layer.
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