US 10,256,223 B2 · Cells having transistors and interconnects including nanowires or 2D material strips

Abstract

An integrated circuit design tool includes a cell library. The cell library includes entries for a plurality of cells, entries in the cell library including specifications of particular cells in a computer executable language. At least one entry in the cell library can comprise a specification of physical structures and timing parameters of a plurality of transistors and an interconnect; wherein a transistor in the plurality has a channel comprising one or more nanowires or 2D material strips arranged in parallel, and the interconnect comprises one or more nanowires or 2D material strips arranged in parallel and connected to terminals of more than one of the transistors in the plurality of transistors. An integrated circuit including the plurality of transistors and the interconnect is described.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A computer system adapted to process a computer implemented representation of a circuit design, comprising:

a processor and memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor, including instructions to select cells from a cell library;
the cell library including entries for a plurality of cells, entries in the cell library including specifications of particular cells in a computer executable language;
and
at least one entry in the cell library comprising a specification of physical structures and timing parameters of a NAND gate including:
a plurality of transistors, at least one transistor in the plurality of transistors comprising a channel including nanowires or 2D material strips;
and
a plurality of interconnects configured to connect terminals of the transistors.

4 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Cells having transistors and interconnects including nanowires or 2D material strips

Life of this patent

Cells having transistors and interconnects including nanowires or 2D material strips

Life of this patent

Abstract

Claims18