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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2007
Filed:
May. 26, 2005
Applicant:
Henry A. Bonges, Iii, Milton, VT (US);
Inventor:
Henry A. Bonges, III, Milton, VT (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Improving semiconductor chip yield and reliability by connecting adjacent metal traces that are on a same network with metal shorts. This reduces and/or eliminates the need for redundant vias formerly employed in semiconductor chip design. Additionally, the metal shorts are placed in conformance with one or more pre-determined design rules. Once placed, the metal shorts are checked to ensure that each metal short connects groundrule clean, thereby ensuring the placement is correct-by-construction.