Active solid-state devices (e.g. – transistors – solid-state diode – Field effect device – Having insulated electrode
Patent
1996-05-31
1998-08-18
Monin, Donald
Active solid-state devices (e.g., transistors, solid-state diode
Field effect device
Having insulated electrode
257528, 257532, H01L 2710, H01L 2715
Patent
active
057961484
ABSTRACT:
An integrated circuit chip is provided having an electrical circuit formed therein. A plurality of devices is formed in an active device region of the chip, such devices being connected as active devices. A plurality of additional ones such device are formed in a region adjacent to the active device region, such additional ones of the devices being connected as passive devices. The additional devices provide a dual purpose: first there presence improves the electrical characteristic matching among the devices which are to provide the active devices for the circuit; and, second, they are available to provide passive devices for use by the circuit rather then merely taking up space as a mere "dummy" previously unused by the circuit. More particularly, a plurality of first devices is formed in an active device region of the chip to provide the active devices. Each one of such first devices has the same shape and size. Each one of the first devices is laterally separated from an adjacent one of the first devices by a predetermined distance. A plurality of second devices is formed in a region adjacent to the active device region to provide the passive devices. Each one of the second devices has the same shape and size as the first devices. Each one of the second devices is separated from an adjacent one of the first devices by the predetermined distance.
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Analog Devices Inc.
Monin Donald
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