Patent ID: 7612418

Claim:
A monolithic structure comprising: a first pair of devices and a second pair of devices, each pair of devices comprising: a first lateral device having a first source terminal, a first drain terminal, and a first gate terminal, each of said first source, first drain, and first gate terminals terminating on a first surface of a semiconductor substrate, and a second lateral device having a second source terminal, a second drain terminal and a second gate terminal, each of said second source, second drain, and second gate terminals terminating on said first surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a multi-layer metal interconnect structure disposed above each pair of devices, wherein (i) in each pair of devices, said first drain terminal is connected to said second drain terminal via the multi-layer metal interconnect structure, and said first gate terminal is connected to said second gate terminal via the multi-layer metal interconnect structure, (ii) in each pair of devices, each first lateral device is combined with each second lateral device on said substrate, (iii) both first source terminals are connected to both second source terminals to define a common source terminal disposed in the multi-layer metal interconnect structure of the monolithic structure, (iv) the multi-layer metal interconnect structure includes a first electrically isolated lead comprising the common source terminal, (v) said first and second drain terminals of the first pair of devices are electrically independent of the first and second drain terminals of the second pair of devices, and (vi) said first and second gate terminals of the first pair of devices are connected to said first and second drain terminals of the second pair of devices via the multi-layer metal interconnect structure and said first and second gate terminals of the second pair of devices are connected to said first and second drain terminals of the first pair of devices via the multi-layer metal interconnect structure.