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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsFlorian Braun, Hanyi Ding, Kai D. Feng, Zhong-Xiang He, Howard S. Landis, Xuefeng Liu, Geoffrey Woodhouse
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Increase power line noise immunity in an IC is provided by using decoupling capacitor structure in an area of the IC that is typically not used for routing, but filled with unconnected and non-functional metal squares (fills). In one embodiment, a method includes providing a circuit design layout; determining a density of a structure in an area of the circuit design layout; and in response to the density being less than a pre-determined density for the structure in the area, filling in a portion of the area with at least one capacitor structure until a combined density of the structure and the at least one capacitor structure in the area is about equal to the pre-determined density. Power line noise immunity is increased by increasing decoupling capacitance without enlarging the IC's total size by using a (fill) area that would normally be filled with unconnected and non-functional metal shapes.
A method of increasing power line noise immunity in an integrated circuit, the method comprising at least one computing device processing the steps of:
A system for increasing power line noise immunity in an integrated circuit, the system comprising:
A program product stored on a computer-readable medium, which when executed, increases power line noise immunity in an integrated circuit, the program product comprising:
An integrated circuit (IC) comprising:
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