IP Library Granted Patent US 9,142,611
Granted Patent B2
US 9,142,611 · App. 14/309,510 · Granted Sep 22, 2015

Semiconductor integrated circuit device

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Patent No.
US 9,142,611
App. No.
14/309,510
Granted
Sep 22, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure provides a layout of a semiconductor integrated circuit device that can assure a lot of substrate contact regions, and can surely suppress latch-up without increasing an area of a whole semiconductor integrated circuit and without significantly decreasing a decoupling capacitance element. In a margin region, a transistor serving as a decoupling capacitance and a substrate contact are disposed as a pair on a P-type well. In the margin region, a transistor serving as a decoupling capacitance and a substrate contact are disposed as a pair on an N-type well.

Claims (30)

1. A semiconductor integrated circuit device comprising:

a plurality of transistors contributing to a logical operation;

an element that does not contribute to the logical operation; and

first, second, and third substrate contact regions supplying a substrate potential to the plurality of transistors,

wherein the semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a plurality of transistor arrays extending in a first direction and being disposed in a line in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction,

wherein each of the plurality of transistor arrays includes the plurality of transistors, the element that does not contribute to the logical operation, the first substrate contact region, the second substrate contact region, and the third substrate contact region disposed between the first substrate contact region and the second substrate contact region,

a substrate contact region is disposed in a region adjacent to the first substrate contact region in the second direction and in a region adjacent to the first substrate contact region in a direction opposite to the second direction,

a substrate contact region is disposed in a region adjacent to the second substrate contact region in the second direction and in a region adjacent to the second substrate contact region in a direction opposite to the second direction,

no substrate contact region is disposed in a region adjacent to the third substrate contact region in the second direction and in a region adjacent to the third substrate contact region in a direction opposite to the second direction, and

the element that does not contribute to the logical operation is disposed in a region adjacent to the third substrate contact region in the first direction.

2. The semiconductor integrated circuit device according to claim 1 , wherein

the third substrate contact region has at least one of structures in which:

(1) an N-type impurity diffusion region is formed on an N well, and

(2) a P-type impurity diffusion region is formed on a P well.

3. The semiconductor integrated circuit device according to claim 1 , wherein

the element that does not contribute to the logical operation is a transistor serving as a capacitance.

4. The semiconductor integrated circuit device according to claim 1 , wherein

the element that does not contribute to the logical operation is any one of an antenna diode, a transistor having a fixed potential, and a transistor that is in a floating state.

5. The semiconductor integrated circuit device according to claim 1 , further comprising a fourth substrate contact region, wherein

a space between the first substrate contact region and the second substrate contact region is equal to a space between the second substrate contact region and the fourth substrate contact region.

6. The semiconductor integrated circuit device according to claim 1 , further comprising a fourth substrate contact region, wherein

no substrate contact region is disposed in a region adjacent to the fourth substrate contact region in the second direction and in a region adjacent to the fourth substrate contact region in a direction opposite to the second direction,

the element that does not contribute to the logical operation is disposed in a region adjacent to the fourth substrate contact region in the first direction, and

an area of a diffusion region forming the third substrate contact region is different from an area of a diffusion region forming the fourth substrate contact region.

7. The semiconductor integrated circuit device according to claim 1 , wherein

at least one of the first substrate contact region and the second substrate contact region further includes an element that does not contribute to an operation.

8. The semiconductor integrated circuit device according to claim 7 , wherein

the element that does not contribute to the logical operation is a transistor serving as a capacitance.

9. The semiconductor integrated circuit device according to claim 7 , wherein

the element that does not contribute to the logical operation is any one of an antenna diode, a transistor having a fixed potential, and a transistor that is in a floating state.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 25, 2015
From: PANASONIC CORPORATION
To: SOCIONEXT INC.
Reel/Frame 035294/0942 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 19, 2014
From: NAKANISHI, KAZUYUKI
To: PANASONIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 033568/0137 →