Patent ID: 6858935

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 conductor comprising: a first wire deposed in a Manhattan direction relative to the boundaries of the integrated circuit, the first wire comprising first and second ends; and a second wire deposed in a diagonal direction relative to the boundaries of the integrated circuit, 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, the effective preferred direction of each conductor defines an angle, A, measured relative to the boundaries of the integrated circuit, the angle A being defined by the expression Tan A=Y/X; and 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.