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US 7,685,552 · App. 11/690,985 · Granted Mar 23, 2010

Semiconductor integrated circuit device having clock buffers and method for arranging the clock buffers on the device

Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
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Patent No.
US 7,685,552
App. No.
11/690,985
Granted
Mar 23, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

This invention concerns a semiconductor integrated circuit device comprising a plurality of circuit elements arranged in a chip and operating in response to a same clock signal; clock buffers arranged at intersecting points decided based on positions of the plurality of circuit elements, the intersecting points being included in intersecting points of a pseudo mesh virtually assumed to cover up a region in the chip including the plurality of circuit elements; and a main wiring transmitting the clock signal to the clock buffers.

Claims (8)

1. A semiconductor integrated circuit device comprising:

a plurality of circuit elements arranged in a chip and operating in response to a same clock signal;

clock buffers arranged at intersecting points decided based on positions of the plurality of circuit elements, the intersecting points being included in intersecting points of a pseudo mesh virtually assumed to conceptually cover up a region in the chip including the plurality of circuit elements; and

a main wiring transmitting the clock signal to the clock buffers, wherein

the pseudo mesh is a different mesh from a wiring mesh of the main wiring, and

the main wiring is shaped into a mesh at a larger mesh pitch than a mesh pitch of the pseudo mesh.

2. The semiconductor integrated circuit device according to claim 1 , wherein a pseudo line of the pseudo mesh is inclined with respect to a wiring formation direction.

3. The semiconductor integrated circuit device according to claim 1 , wherein a pseudo line of the pseudo mesh is inclined at an angle of 45 degrees with respect to a wiring formation direction.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 31, 2007
From: ISHIHARA, FUJIO; OKUDA, RYUBI; HIMENO, TOSHIHIKO; FUJII, HIROSHIGE
To: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
Reel/Frame 019361/0160 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2006-106133 · Apr 7, 2006 · national
JP 2007-043155 · Feb 23, 2007 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20070240087A1 · Oct 11, 2007