US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Aug. 4 for "Method of implementing an integrated circuit having a narrow-width cell and a wider-width cell with same functionality" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,831, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method of implementing an integrated circuit having a narrow-width cell and a wider-width cell with same functionality" was invented by Anurag Verma (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Meng-Kai Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chiwei Hu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a first circuit cell having a first width and a second circuit cell having a second width that is wider than the first width by at least one contacted poly pitch. An equivalent circuit of the first circuit cell is the same as an equivalent cir...