Patent ID: 7861204

Claim:
A design structure embodied in a non-transitory machine readable medium used in a design process, the design structure comprising an integrated circuit, wherein the integrated circuit includes: a substrate; a first electrically conductive line segment, a second electrically conductive line segment, and a third electrically conductive line segment on the substrate, wherein the first, second, and third electrically conductive line segments run in a reference direction, and wherein the first, second, and third electrically conductive line segments reside in a first interconnect layer of the integrated circuit, wherein a length L1 of the first electrically conductive line segment in the reference direction is greater than a length L2 of the second electrically conductive line segment in the reference direction, and wherein the length L2 is greater than a length L3 of the third electrically conductive line segment in the reference direction; an electrically conductive line electrically coupled to the first and second electrically conductive line segments through a first via and a second via, respectively, wherein the electrically conductive line resides in a second interconnect layer of the integrated circuit, wherein the second interconnect layer is above the first interconnect layer, and wherein the electrically conductive line runs in the reference direction; and an electrical structure formed within a third interconnect layer residing below said first electrically conductive line segment and said second electrically conductive line segment and between said first interconnect layer and said substrate, wherein said electrical structure is directly electrically and mechanically connected to said first electrically conductive line segment and said second electrically conductive line segment.