Patent ID: 6989688

Claim:
An integrated circuit, comprising: a plurality of switches; a first conductor having a first span along a first dimension, the first conductor to selectively couple to at least one input of each of at least two adjacent program controlled cells through a respective first switch and second switch of the plurality of switches without requiring traversal of another conductor; a second conductor having a second span along the first dimension; a third conductor having a third span along the first dimension, the third span being different than the second span, the first conductor to selectively couple to the second conductor and the third conductor; a fourth conductor having a fourth span along a second dimension; and a fifth conductor having a fifth span along the second dimension, the fourth span being different than the fifth span, and each of the fourth conductor and the fifth conductor selectively coupled to drive the first conductor through a respective independently controlled third switch and fourth switch of the plurality of switches, and wherein each of the first, second, third, fourth and fifth conductors is neither an input nor an output of a program controlled cell.