Patent ID: 8432031

Claim:
A semiconductor die comprising: a semiconductor circuit comprising a plurality of semiconductor components; a current trace line coupled to a first semiconductor component; and a current routing line coupled with the current trace line, wherein the current routing line comprises a plurality of non-metallic slots extending through the current routing line, wherein the current routing line comprises a plurality of corner areas in which a corner area of the current routing line is adjacent to a corner area of the semiconductor die, and wherein, at a first corner area of the current routing line, where the first corner area of the current routing line is adjacent to a first corner area of the semiconductor die and extends at an approximately 45° angle with respect to the current routing line coming into and exiting from the first corner area of the current routing line, the plurality of non-metallic slots: extend through the current routing line; include a first row of non-metallic slots and a second row of non-metallic slots, wherein the non-metallic slots of the first row are equally-spaced from one another and the non-metallic slots of the second row are equally-spaced from one another, and wherein the first row of non-metallic slots runs parallel to the second row of non-metallic slots; are aligned parallel with the current routing line of the first corner area; and do not extend out of the first corner area of the current routing line into the current routing line coming into or exiting from the first corner area of the current routing line.