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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:
Sep. 04, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Thomas E. Adams, Orlando, FL (US);
Assignee:
Agere Systems Guardian Corp., Orlando, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03F 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03F 9/00 ;
Abstract
A system for, and method of, manufacturing a semicustom reticle for an integrated circuit (IC) and an IC manufactured by the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a library of reticle primitives, at least two of the reticle primitives containing patterns corresponding to portions of a layer to be created by the semicustom Reticle and (2) exposure equipment that employs the at least two of the recticle primitives to create an image of the patterns on the semicustom reticle to allow the semicustom reticle to create the layer in a single lithographic step.