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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2010
Jeng-huang Wu, Hsinchu County, TW;
Hung-yi Chang, Hsinchu County, TW;
Chun Huang, Taipei County, TW;
Jeng-Huang Wu, Hsinchu County, TW;
Hung-Yi Chang, Hsinchu County, TW;
Chun Huang, Taipei County, TW;
Faraday Technology Corp., Science-Based Industrial Park, Hsin-Chu, TW;
Abstract
An IO cell with multiple IO ports and related techniques are provided. The IO cell has a plurality of IO ports for transmitting signal of a same IO pin, and each IO port corresponds to a predetermined region for containing an IO pad, wherein at least one of the plural predetermined regions of the plural IO ports partially overlaps with active circuit layout region of the IO cell. In a chip, if a given IO cell has a predetermined region of an IO port overlapping an IO pad location of another adjacent IO cell, then a predetermined region of another IO port is selected for implementing an IO pad of the given IO cell, such that the IO cells can be arranged more compactly for chip layout area saving.