Patent 11854974 was granted and assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on December, 2023 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
One aspect of this description relates to an integrated circuit. In some aspects, the integrated circuit includes a first pattern metal layer, a second pattern metal layer disposed over the first pattern metal layer, wherein the second pattern metal layer includes a second plurality of metal tracks extending in a first direction, and a third pattern metal layer disposed between the first pattern metal layer and the second pattern metal layer, the third pattern metal layer including a first metal track segment and a second metal track segment shifted in a second direction from the first metal track segment, wherein the second plurality of metal tracks, and at least a portion of each of the first metal track segment and the second metal track segment are within a double cell height in the second direction.