Patent ID: 6794691
Filing Date: 2004-09-21
Classification: H01L

Abstract:
An integrated circuit having a plurality of conductive layers, a particular conductive layer of the plurality of conductive layers comprising the following:a plurality of active conductor components that are used for the electrical conduction operation of the integrated circuit; and a plurality of conductor filler features that are interposed amongst the plurality of active conductor components, wherein a bounding box for each of the plurality of conductor filler features has an upper, right, lower, and left edge that aligns with the upper-most, right-most, lower-most, and left-most edge of the corresponding conductive filler feature, the bounding box of each of a group of at least one of the plurality of conductive filler features non-overlapping with any other bounding box of any of the plurality of conductive filler features, each of the group of at least one of the plurality of conductive filler features occupying from approximately fifteen to seventy percent of its bounding box, wherein a neighboring conductive filler feature of the group of at least one of the plurality of conductive filler features neighbors an active conductive component of the plurality of active conductive components, the neighboring conductive filler feature having a relatively small edge on each of the upper, right, lower, and left edge border of the bounding box that in each dimension is less than sixty percent of the length of the neighboring conductive filler feature's bounding box along the corresponding edge of the bounding box.