ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,594, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Mixed diffusion break for cell design" was invented by Deepak Dattatraya Sherlekar (Cupertino, Calif.), Victor Moroz (Saratoga, Calif.) and Jamil Kawa (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to designing an integrated circuit using a cell that includes a mixed diffusion break. The cell has first and second edges, where the second edge is opposite from the first edge. The cell has a first dummy transistor spanning between the first edge of the cell and an edge of a first diffusion break. The first diffusion break may be centered und...