Patent ID: 7017136

Claim:
An integrated circuit comprising: a first switch, a second switch and a third switch; a first conductor and a second conductor, each having different first span and second span, respectively, along a first dimension, wherein the first span is greater than the second span, each of the first conductor and the second conductor being neither an input nor an output of a program controlled cell, at least one conductor of the first conductor and the second conductor to selectively couple to two independently controlled switches comprising the first switch and the second switch; a first program controlled cell to drive the at least one conductor through the first switch without requiring traversal of another conductor; a second program controlled cell to drive the at least one conductor through the second switch without requiring traversal of another conductor; and wherein the first conductor is configured to drive the second conductor through the third switch without requiring traversal of another conductor, and wherein the first conductor and the second conductor are spanning at least one common program controlled cell along the first dimension.