ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,958, issued on May 6, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor device including hard macro" was invented by Jong Doo Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Sang Do Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate which comprises a first surface and a second surface opposing each other, and a hard macro which is disposed on the first surface of the substrate. The hard macro comprises a cell area and a halo area formed along the periphery of the cell area. In addition, the hard macro comprises a first con...