IP Library Granted Patent US 8,080,883
Granted Patent B2
US 8,080,883 · App. 12/320,784 · Granted Dec 20, 2011

Wiring placement method of wirings having different length and semiconductor integrated circuit device

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Patent No.
US 8,080,883
App. No.
12/320,784
Granted
Dec 20, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

A longest wiring and a shortest wiring alongside each other among the plurality of wirings are placed. Then, a longest wiring from among remaining wires which have not being placed yet, alongside an outside of a space surrounded by the wirings already placed and on a side of a shorter wiring of the wrings placed at outermost ends are placed. A shortest wiring from among remaining wires which have not placed yet, alongside an outside of a space surrounded by the wirings already placed and on a side of a longer wiring of the wirings placed at outermost ends is placed. These two processes are repeated.

Claims (14)

1. A semiconductor integrated circuit device including a plurality of wirings of different lengths placed in parallel on a plane, said semiconductor integrated circuit device comprising:

a 1 st longest wiring being arranged to extend in a first direction among the plurality of wirings;

a 1 st shortest wiring among the plurality of wirings adjacently being placed to the 1 st longest wiring, said 1 st shortest wiring being arranged in parallel with said 1 st longest wiring along said first direction;

a (n+1)th shortest wiring, longer than said 1 st shortest wiring, adjacently being placed to a (n)th longest wiring, at an outside of a place which is surrounded by a (n)th shortest wiring, shorter than said (n+1)th shortest wiring, and the (n)th longest wiring, said (n+1)th shortest wiring being arranged in parallel with said 1st longest wiring along said first direction, said (n+1)th shortest wiring being longer than said (n)th shortest wiring; and

a (n+1)th longest wiring, shorter than said (n)th longest wiring, adjacently being placed to the (n)th shortest wiring at an outside of a place which is surrounded by the (n)th shortest wiring and the (n)th longest wiring, said (n+1)th longest wiring being arranged in parallel with said 1st shortest wiring along said first direction,

wherein n is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

2. The semiconductor integrated circuit device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a wire parallel with the wirings is arranged other than between the wirings.

3. The semiconductor integrated circuit device as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:

a first wiring group constituted by a portion of the wirings and extending in the first direction; and

a second wiring group constituted by another portion of the wirings and extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.

4. The semiconductor integrated circuit device as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:

a first wiring group constituted by a portion of the plurality of wirings and extending in the first direction;

a second wiring group constituted by another portion of the plurality of wirings and extending in the first direction; and

an intermediate wiring group extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction to connect the first wiring group with the second wiring group.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Nov 29, 2017
From: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
To: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 044928/0001 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 28, 2010
From: NEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
To: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 025214/0678 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 4, 2009
From: WATARAI, TAMOTSU
To: NEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 022264/0054 →