Patent 7217962 was granted and assigned to Transmeta on May, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Different patterns of interconnects for connecting wells in a semiconductor device are described. For example, a semiconductor device may include n-wells and p-wells arrayed in rows and columns that lie on a rectilinear grid. Electrically conductive interconnects link at least some of the wells. The interconnects are arranged as a mesh having openings that are substantially rectangular in shape.