Slotted integrated circuit resistor
First Claim
1. An artificial anisotropic resistor medium fabricated on a substrate in accordance with design constraints of a fabrication technology, including:
- a substrate;
at least two terminal elements;
a resistive body fabricated on the substrate and coupling the terminal elements; and
a plurality of slots extending through the resistive body between the terminal elements to form a plurality of discrete resistive links coupled in parallel between the two terminal elements, wherein the slots have a width equal to a minimum width obtainable within the design constraints of the fabrication technology and the resistive links have a length profile which varies as a parabolic function.
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Abstract
A distributed wye resistor network fabricated on an integrated circuit substrate includes a resistive body coupled between two terminal elements. The resistive body includes a plurality of slots extending therethrough between the terminal elements to form a plurality of discrete resistive links. The resistive body therefore has characteristics of an artificial anisotropically conducting medium. The resistive links have a parabolic length profile. The links can be continuously cut, starting with the shortest link, until parameters of the integrated circuit are brought within desired specifications.
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22 Claims
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1. An artificial anisotropic resistor medium fabricated on a substrate in accordance with design constraints of a fabrication technology, including:
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a substrate; at least two terminal elements; a resistive body fabricated on the substrate and coupling the terminal elements; and a plurality of slots extending through the resistive body between the terminal elements to form a plurality of discrete resistive links coupled in parallel between the two terminal elements, wherein the slots have a width equal to a minimum width obtainable within the design constraints of the fabrication technology and the resistive links have a length profile which varies as a parabolic function. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A distributed wye resistor network adapted for fabrication on a substrate utilizing a fabrication technology, including:
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a substrate; first and second terminals; a first resistive body fabricated on the substrate and coupled to the first terminal; a second resistive body fabricated on the substrate and coupled between the first resistive body and the second terminal; and an artificial anisotropic resistive body fabricated on the substrate and coupled between the first resistive body and the second terminal, wherein the artificial anisotropic resistive body includes a plurality of slots having a width equal to a minimum width obtainable within design constraints of the fabrication technology, extending through the resistive body to form a plurality of discrete resistive links coupled to each other in an electrically parallel arrangement. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. An integrated circuit resistor, including:
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a substrate; at least two terminal elements; a resistive body fabricated on the substrate and coupling the terminal elements; and a plurality of slots having a maximum width of three microns extending through the resistive body between the terminal elements to form a plurality of discrete resistive links coupled in parallel between the two terminal elements. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. An integrated circuit resistor, including:
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a substrate; a pair of elongated terminal elements fabricated on the substrate; a plurality of resistive links having a maximum width of six microns coupled between the terminal elements in an electrically parallel arrangement and spaced from one another by slots having a maximum width of three microns. - View Dependent Claims (22)
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