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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2010
Applicant:
Abdalla Aly Naem, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Abdalla Aly Naem, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/283 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A copper-topped interconnect structure allows the combination of high density design areas, which have low current requirements that can be met with tightly packed thin and narrow copper traces, and low density design areas, which have high current requirements that can be met with more widely spaced thick and wide copper traces, on the same chip.