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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:
Mar. 25, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Patrick H. Buffet, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Yu H. Sun, Beaverton, OR (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/352 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/352 ;
Abstract
A semiconductor device comprising: a global power bus having a first portion for supplying power to a first set of circuits and a second portion for supplying power to a second set of circuits; a local power bus for supplying alternative power to the second set of circuits; and wherein the total of the width of the second portion of the global power bus and of the width of the local power bus does not exceed the width of the first portion of the global power bus.