Patent ID: 7561407

Claim:
A multi-segment capacitor fabricated on a semiconductor substrate, comprising: multiple banks of capacitor segments, the capacitor segments within each bank being connected in parallel, each capacitor segment including a plurality of capacitor elements, each capacitor element including two sets of electrically insulated and spatially interleaved parallel conductive fingers having a longitudinal axis; wherein the conductive fingers of a first capacitor element of at least one capacitor segment have a longitudinal axis that is not parallel to the longitudinal axis of the conductive fingers of a second capacitor element of the same capacitor segment; wherein the multiple banks of capacitor segments are connected in accordance with a predefined connection scheme; and wherein a first metal line is selectively connected to a capacitor segment within a first bank of capacitor segments and a second metal line is selectively connected to a capacitor segment within a second bank of capacitor segments.