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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2009
Aparna Ramachandran, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Robert P. Masleid, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Aparna Ramachandran, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Robert P. Masleid, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Oracle America, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
A zipper structure includes a first contiguous full-dense-mesh (FDM) array of a first circuit in top metal and a second contiguous FDM array of a second circuit in top-1 metal, a third contiguous FDM array of the second circuit in top metal and a fourth contiguous FDM array of the first circuit in top-1 metal, and a signal line, such that portions of the first contiguous FDM array and the second contiguous FDM array overlap and portions of the third contiguous FDM array and the fourth contiguous FDM array overlap. The Zipper structure facilitates connecting the first contiguous FDM array to the fourth contiguous FDM array by vias and a first connector lines and the second contiguous FDM array to the third contiguous FDM array by vias and a second connector lines, such that portion of the signal line overlaps with the first connector lines and the second connector lines.