Semiconductor device having at least four side-by-side electrodes of equal length and equal pitch with at least two transistor connections to power or ground

An integrated circuit device, comprising:

• a substrate region that forms part of a substrate of the integrated circuit device, the substrate region including a number of diffusion regions of transistors;
• a gate electrode level region that forms part of a gate electrode level of the integrated circuit device, the gate electrode level region formed over the substrate region, the gate electrode level region including at least four linear conductive segments each formed to have a respective length and a respective width when viewed from above, wherein a size of the length of a given linear conductive segment is greater than or equal to a size of the width of the given linear conductive segment, and
• wherein the at least four linear conductive segments are formed to have their lengths extend in a first direction in a parallel manner, and
• wherein each of the at least four linear conductive segments is defined to have a substantially equal length as measured in the first direction, and
• wherein the at least four linear conductive segments are positioned in a side-by-side manner according to a substantially equal centerline-to-centerline spacing as measured in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and
• wherein the at least four linear conductive segments includes a first linear conductive segment that forms a gate electrode of a first transistor of a first transistor type, wherein the first transistor of the first transistor type is formed in part by a first diffusion region electrically connected to either a power supply or a reference ground potential, and
• wherein the at least four linear conductive segments includes a second linear conductive segment that forms a gate electrode of a second transistor of the first transistor type, wherein the second transistor of the first transistor type is formed in part by a second diffusion region electrically connected to either the power supply or the reference ground potential.