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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. 03, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ali Akbar Iranmanesh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Artisan Components, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/711 ; H01L 2/718 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/711 ; H01L 2/718 ;
Abstract
A highly flexible, heterogeneous architecture for portable, high density, high performance standard cell and gate array applications is disclosed. The architecture is based on the three basic cells and their derivatives, particularly a transmission gate cell, a logic cell, and a drive cell. For gate array implementations, the cells are arranged in a pre-determined regular array format. For standard cell implementations, the arrangement of the cells may be optimized to suit each target logic gate. Optimized transistor sizing is achievable through leaf cells, software sizing, or both.