US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Aug. 25 for "Standard cell layout architectures and drawing styles for 5NM and beyond" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,128, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Standard cell layout architectures and drawing styles for 5NM and beyond" was invented by Richard T. Schultz (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for efficiently creating layout for a standard cell are described. A standard cell to be used for an integrated circuit uses a full trench silicide strap as drain regions for a pmos transistor and an nmos transistor. Multiple unidirectional routes in metal zero are placed across the standard cell where each route connects to a trench silicide contact. Power and grou...