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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. 12, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 10, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jai P Bansal, Manassas, VA (US);
Assignee:
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
438129 ; 438599 ;
Abstract
A method of making gate array ASIC components from a master slice wafer having a first conducting layer containing logic elements, a second conducting layer containing first electrically conducting elements extending in a first direction, and a third conducting layer comprises interconnecting at least some of the logic elements to one another with a single masking process step by defining, on the third conducting layer, second conducting elements connected to the first electrically conducting elements to define connections between the logic elements.