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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. 21, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2007
Applicant:
Robert L. Pitts, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventor:
Robert L. Pitts, Dallas, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 19/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A logic block, a cell library, a method of designing a logic block and an ASIC including the logic block. The invention provides a logic block including rows of standard cells having different track heights. In one embodiment, the invention provides a logic block including: (1) a first row of standard cells having a first track height and (2) a second row of standard cells adjacent to the first row and having a second track height that differs from the first track height.