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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2005
Eiichi Makino, Round Rock, TX (US);
Eiichi Makino, Round Rock, TX (US);
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Systems and methods for arranging parallel wires to reduce the capacitance variations. In one embodiment, multiple first components arranged as a linear array are coupled to a second component at the end of this linear array by corresponding signal wires. Each signal wire has a perpendicular portion extending perpendicular to the direction of the linear array, and a parallel portion which runs parallel to the direction of the linear array. The parallel portions are staggered so that longer ones of the parallel portions are adjacent to the shorter ones of the parallel portions, instead of simply being arranged from longest to shortest. In one embodiment, the longer half of the parallel portions decrease in length across the series of parallel portions, while the shorter half of the parallel portions increase in length. In another embodiment, successively longer/shorter parallel portions alternate sides of the series.