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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:
Aug. 01, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 29, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
George English, Salt Point, NY (US);
Joachim Keinert, Altdorf, DE;
Oliver Rettig, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
29852 ; 29827 ; 29846 ;
Abstract
A method of manufacturing semiconductor circuits or electronic packages is provided. The step of splitting up wide metal areas into metal stripes is included into the physical design step of such devices. This method does not increase the data complexity significantly and guarantees correctness of the design. Furthermore, the method allows to solve the dishing problem that is inherent to copper wiring technologies.