Patent ID: 6900540

Claim:
An integrated circuit comprising: at least one metal layer comprising at least one thousand conductors effectively deposed in an effective preferred direction to interconnect one or more points within the integrated circuit, the effective preferred direction comprising a direction for at least forty percent of the conductors on the metal layer; each particular conductor comprising: a first wire deposed in a first Manhattan direction relative to the boundaries of the integrated circuit, the first wire comprising first and second ends; a second wire deposed in a second Manhattan direction relative to the boundaries of the integrated circuit, the first Manhattan direction being different than the second Manhattan direction, the second wire comprising first and second ends, the first end of the second wire being coupled to the second end of the first wire; wherein each wire being a continuous segment deposed in a single direction; and wherein, the effective preferred direction of a particular conductor comprises an angle, A, measured relative to the boundaries of the integrated circuit, defined by the expression Tan A=Y/X, wherein, Y comprises a line segment with a distance starting from the second end of the second wire and ending at an intersection with a line segment propagated from the first end of the first wire and in the direction of the first wire, and X comprises a distance, measured in the direction of the first wire, starting from the first end of the first wire and ending with the intersection of the Y line segment.