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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 15, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2000
Sira G. Sudhindranath, Milpitas, CA (US);
Anand Sethuraman, Santa Clara, CA (US);
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
Routing of electrical connections between cells arranged in cell columns on an integrated circuit (IC) die. Electrical connections are routed on a routing layer between cells located in a first cell column. An identification is made of an available off-grid resource capable of being used for wire routing that is both within the first cell column and on the routing layer. An electrical connection is routed between a first cell and a second cell located in different cell columns using at least a portion of the identified available off-grid resource. Also, an integrated circuit die which includes vertical power rails and vertical ground rails. Cell columns, including a first cell column and a second cell column, are each bordered by a vertical power rail and a vertical ground rail. A channel is provided between the first cell column and the second cell column. An electrical connection is provided between a first electronic component in the first cell column and a second electronic component in the second cell column. The electrical connection includes an on-grid wire segment in the channel between the first cell column and the second cell column and an off-grid wire segment formed in one of the cell columns.
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