Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1995-08-21
1998-10-13
Teska, Kevin
Boots, shoes, and leggings
364489, 364490, 364491, 364518, G06F 1560
Patent
active
058222146
ABSTRACT:
Several inventions are disclosed. A cell architecture using hexagonal shaped cells is disclosed. The architecture is not limited to hexagonal shaped cells. Cells may be defined by clusters of two or more hexagons, by triangles, by parallelograms, and by other polygons enabling a variety of cell shapes to be accommodated. Polydirectional non-orthogonal three layer metal routing is disclosed. The architecture may be combined with the tri-directional routing for a particularly advantageous design. In the tri-directional routing arrangement, electrical conductors for interconnecting terminals of microelectronic cells of an integrated circuit preferably extend in three directions that are angularly displaced from each other by 60.degree.. The conductors that extend in the three directions are preferably formed in three different layers. A method of minimizing wire length in a semiconductor device is disclosed. A method of minimizing intermetal capacitance in a semiconductor device is disclosed. A novel device called a "tri-ister" is disclosed. Triangular devices are disclosed, including triangular NAND gates, triangular AND gates, and triangular OR gates. A triangular op amp and triode are disclosed. A triangular sense amplifier is disclosed. A DRAM memory array and an SRAM memory array, based upon triangular or parallelogram shaped cells, are disclosed, including a method of interconnecting such arrays. A programmable variable drive transistor is disclosed. CAD algorithms and methods are disclosed for designing and making semiconductor devices, which are particularly applicable to the disclosed architecture and tri-directional three metal layer routing.
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Aleshin Stanislav V.
Andreev Alexander E.
Jones Edwin R.
Kapoor Ashok K.
Koford James S.
LSI Logic Corporation
Roberts A.
Teska Kevin
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