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US 2008/0157286 A1Published application
Semiconductor device having a indicator indicating cleavage direction
AssigneeNEC Electronics Corporation
InventorTakayuki Iwaki
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Abstract
An indicator that denotes the cleavage direction is arranged along with an integrated circuit of a semiconductor chip. This indicator makes it possible to cut the semiconductor chip along the cleavage direction even if the integrated circuit is arranged not to be in the cleavage direction.
Claims20
A semiconductor device, comprising:
- an integrated circuit including a semiconductor circuit and an interconnect pattern, said integrated circuit being defined by a scribeline;
- and
- an indicator, adjacent to said integrated circuit, which denotes a cleavage direction of said semiconductor device.
A semiconductor chip, comprising:
- a semiconductor substrate, which has an edge having a direction different from a cleavage direction of said semiconductor substrate;
- and
- an indicator which denotes said cleavage direction of said semiconductor substrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.