IP Library Granted Patent US 7,141,864
Granted Patent B2
US 7,141,864 · App. 10/893,643 · Granted Nov 28, 2006

Grouped capacitive element

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Patent No.
US 7,141,864
App. No.
10/893,643
Granted
Nov 28, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

There is disclosed a semiconductor device comprising at least one capacitive element group having a plurality of unit capacitive elements. At least one lead-out electrode for bottom electrodes of the unit capacitive elements of the capacitive element group is provided along a circumference going around top electrodes as a whole of the capacitive element group. The at least one lead-out electrode is provided so as to surround the top electrodes as a whole of the capacitive element group.

Claims (7)

1. A semiconductor integrated circuit comprising at least one capacitive element group having a plurality of unit capacitive elements, wherein

a lead-out electrode for a bottom electrode which is used in common for the unit capacitive elements of the capacitive element group, is provided so as to surround a circumference around top electrodes of the capacitive element group.

2. The semiconductor integrated circuit according to claim 1 , comprising a plurality of the unit capacitive element groups, each of which is formed of identical unit capacitive elements.

3. The semiconductor integrated circuit according to claim 2 , wherein the unit capacitive elements of each of the plurality of capacitive element groups are arranged in grid form, and wherein the top electrodes of the unit capacitive elements adjacent to each other in each of the plurality of capacitive element groups are joined together, and wherein the top electrodes of the unit capacitive elements adjacent to each other across the capacitive element groups of difference are not joined together.

4. The semiconductor integrated circuit according to claim 2 , wherein if there is a vacant region free of the unit capacitive elements between the top electrodes of the plurality of capacitive element groups, surrounded by the lead-out electrode, dummy elements are provided in the vacant region.

5. The semiconductor integrated circuit according to claim 1 , wherein a portion of the lead-out electrode of the capacitive element group is cut, and wherein an external connection terminal for at least one of the top electrodes is extendable outwards through the cut.

6. The semiconductor integrated circuit according to claim 1 , which is used for a voltage dividing circuit comprising, as a constituent element, the capacitive element group.

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