Patents by Inventor Naozumi Morino

Naozumi Morino has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10418325
    Abstract: A metal wiring layer includes a plurality of hierarchical blocks each divided by a side that serves as a boundary. One of the hierarchical blocks is placed to extend along the outer periphery of the self hierarchical block, and includes: a shield ring wire formed by a single metal wire or by a plurality of metal wires; and a plurality of metal wires that are placed inside the shield ring wire and extend in a preferential direction determined in advance. The shield ring wire has a first section extending in the preferential direction and a second section extending in a non-preferential direction perpendicular to the preferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Nishida, Naozumi Morino, Toshimi Mizutani
  • Publication number: 20170263550
    Abstract: A metal wiring layer includes a plurality of hierarchical blocks each divided by a side that serves as a boundary. One of the hierarchical blocks is placed to extend along the outer periphery of the self hierarchical block, and includes: a shield ring wire formed by a single metal wire or by a plurality of metal wires; and a plurality of metal wires that are placed inside the shield ring wire and extend in a preferential direction determined in advance. The shield ring wire has a first section extending in the preferential direction and a second section extending in a non-preferential direction perpendicular to the preferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroki NISHIDA, Naozumi MORINO, Toshimi MIZUTANI
  • Patent number: 9515019
    Abstract: The present invention has for its purpose to provide a technique capable of reducing planar dimension of the semiconductor device. An input/output circuit is formed over the semiconductor substrate, a grounding wiring and a power supply wiring pass over the input/output circuit, and a conductive layer for a bonding pad is formed thereover. The input/output circuit is formed of MISFET elements in the nMISFET forming region and the pMISFET forming region, resistance elements in the resistance element forming regions and diode elements in the diode element forming regions functioning as protective elements. A wiring connected to the protective elements and positioned under the grounding wiring and the power supply wiring is pulled out in a pulling-out region between the nMISFET forming region and the pMISFET forming region and between the grounding wiring and the power supply wiring to be connected to the conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Hayashi, Shunsuke Toyoshima, Kazuo Sakamoto, Naozumi Morino, Kazuo Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20160233154
    Abstract: The present invention has for its purpose to provide a technique capable of reducing planar dimension of the semiconductor device. An input/output circuit is formed over the semiconductor substrate, a grounding wiring and a power supply wiring pass over the input/output circuit, and a conductive layer for a bonding pad is formed thereover. The input/output circuit is formed of MISFET elements in the nMISFET forming region and the pMISFET forming region, resistance elements in the resistance element forming regions and diode elements in the diode element forming regions functioning as protective elements. A wiring connected to the protective elements and positioned under the grounding wiring and the power supply wiring is pulled out in a pulling-out region between the nMISFET forming region and the pMISFET forming region and between the grounding wiring and the power supply wiring to be connected to the conductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Inventors: Takahiro Hayashi, Shunsuke Toyoshima, Kazuo Sakamoto, Naozumi Morino, Kazuo Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9379100
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device comprises I/O cells arranged around a core region. Each of the I/O cells comprises a level shifter circuit, an I/O logic circuit, and an I/O buffer circuit. An I/O logic region in which the I/O logic circuit is arranged and an I/O buffer region in which the I/O buffer circuit is arranged overlap with a region in which a pad for the I/O cell is arranged. The I/O logic region and the I/O buffer region are arranged side by side in a direction parallel to a side of the core region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Sakamoto, Naozumi Morino, Kazuo Tanaka, Hiroyasu Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 9343460
    Abstract: The present invention has for its purpose to provide a technique capable of reducing planar dimension of the semiconductor device. An input/output circuit is formed over the semiconductor substrate, a grounding wiring and a power supply wiring pass over the input/output circuit, and a conductive layer for a bonding pad is formed thereover. The input/output circuit is formed of MISFET elements in the nMISFET forming region and the pMISFET forming region, resistance elements in the resistance element forming regions and diode elements in the diode element forming regions functioning as protective elements. A wiring connected to the protective elements and positioned under the grounding wiring and the power supply wiring is pulled out in a pulling-out region between the nMISFET forming region and the pMISFET forming region and between the grounding wiring and the power supply wiring to be connected to the conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Hayashi, Shunsuke Toyoshima, Kazuo Sakamoto, Naozumi Morino, Kazuo Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20160079231
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device comprises I/O cells arranged around a core region. Each of the I/O cells comprises a level shifter circuit, an I/O logic circuit, and an I/O buffer circuit. An I/O logic region in which the I/O logic circuit is arranged and an I/O buffer region in which the I/O buffer circuit is arranged overlap with a region in which a pad for the I/O cell is arranged. The I/O logic region and the I/O buffer region are arranged side by side in a direction parallel to a side of the core region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Kazuo Sakamoto, Naozumi Morino, Kazuo Tanaka, Hiroyasu Ishizuka
  • Publication number: 20160027731
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a circuit region where a circuit element is formed, a multilayer wiring layer that is formed on the substrate and composed of a plurality of wiring layers and a plurality of via layers that are laminated, and an electrode pad that is formed on the multilayer wiring layer. An interlayer insulating film is formed in a region of a first wiring layer that is a top layer of the plurality of wiring layers, in the region the electrode pad and the first circuit region overlapping each other in a planar view of the electrode pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Ryo Mori, Kazuki Fukuoka, Naozumi Morino, Yoshinori Deguchi
  • Patent number: 9209811
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device comprises I/O cells arranged around a core region. Each of the I/O cells comprises a level shifter circuit, an I/O logic circuit, and an I/O buffer circuit. An I/O logic region in which the I/O logic circuit is arranged and an I/O buffer region in which the I/O buffer circuit is arranged overlap with a region in which a pad for the I/O cell is arranged. The I/O logic region and the I/O buffer region are arranged side by side in a direction parallel to a side of the core region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Sakamoto, Naozumi Morino, Kazuo Tanaka, Hiroyasu Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 9171767
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a circuit region where a circuit element is formed, a multilayer wiring layer that is formed on the substrate and composed of a plurality of wiring layers and a plurality of via layers that are laminated, and an electrode pad that is formed on the multilayer wiring layer. An interlayer insulating film is formed in a region of a first wiring layer that is a top layer of the plurality of wiring layers, in the region the electrode pad and the first circuit region overlapping each other in a planar view of the electrode pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Mori, Kazuki Fukuoka, Naozumi Morino, Yoshinori Deguchi
  • Publication number: 20150287724
    Abstract: The present invention has for its purpose to provide a technique capable of reducing planar dimension of the semiconductor device. An input/output circuit is formed over the semiconductor substrate, a grounding wiring and a power supply wiring pass over the input/output circuit, and a conductive layer for a bonding pad is formed thereover. The input/output circuit is formed of MISFET elements in the nMISFET forming region and the pMISFET forming region, resistance elements in the resistance element forming regions and diode elements in the diode element forming regions functioning as protective elements. A wiring connected to the protective elements and positioned under the grounding wiring and the power supply wiring is pulled out in a pulling-out region between the nMISFET forming region and the pMISFET forming region and between the grounding wiring and the power supply wiring to be connected to the conductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Takahiro Hayashi, Shunsuke Toyoshima, Kazuo Sakamoto, Naozumi Morino, Kazuo Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9093283
    Abstract: The present invention has for its purpose to provide a technique capable of reducing planar dimension of the semiconductor device. An input/output circuit is formed over the semiconductor substrate, a grounding wiring and a power supply wiring pass over the input/output circuit, and a conductive layer for a bonding pad is formed thereover. The input/output circuit is formed of MISFET elements in the nMISFET forming region and the pMISFET forming region, resistance elements in the resistance element forming regions and diode elements in the diode element forming regions functioning as protective elements. A wiring connected to the protective elements and positioned under the grounding wiring and the power supply wiring is pulled out in a pulling-out region between the nMISFET forming region and the pMISFET forming region and between the grounding wiring and the power supply wiring to be connected to the conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Hayashi, Shunsuke Toyoshima, Kazuo Sakamoto, Naozumi Morino, Kazuo Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20150108579
    Abstract: The present invention has for its purpose to provide a technique capable of reducing planar dimension of the semiconductor device. An input/output circuit is formed over the semiconductor substrate, a grounding wiring and a power supply wiring pass over the input/output circuit, and a conductive layer for a bonding pad is formed thereover. The input/output circuit is formed of MISFET elements in the nMISFET forming region and the pMISFET forming region, resistance elements in the resistance element forming regions and diode elements in the diode element forming regions functioning as protective elements. A wiring connected to the protective elements and positioned under the grounding wiring and the power supply wiring is pulled out in a pulling-out region between the nMISFET forming region and the pMISFET forming region and between the grounding wiring and the power supply wiring to be connected to the conductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Takahiro Hayashi, Shunsuke Toyoshima, Kazuo Sakamoto, Naozumi Morino, Kazuo Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20150076709
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a circuit region where a circuit element is formed, a multilayer wiring layer that is formed on the substrate and composed of a plurality of wiring layers and a plurality of via layers that are laminated, and an electrode pad that is formed on the multilayer wiring layer. An interlayer insulating film is formed in a region of a first wiring layer that is a top layer of the plurality of wiring layers, in the region the electrode pad and the first circuit region overlapping each other in a planar view of the electrode pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Ryo Mori, Kazuki Fukuoka, Naozumi Morino, Yoshinori Deguchi
  • Patent number: 8975120
    Abstract: The reliability of a semiconductor device is to be improved. A microcomputer chip (semiconductor chip) having a plurality of pads formed on a main surface thereof is mounted over an upper surface of a wiring substrate in an opposed state of the chip main surface to the substrate upper surface. Pads coupled to a plurality of terminals (bonding leads) formed over the substrate upper surface comprise a plurality of first pads in which a unique electric current different from the electric current flowing through other pads flows and a plurality of second pads in which an electric current common to the pads flows or does not flow. Another first pad of the first pads or one of the second pads are arranged next to the first pad. The first pads are electrically coupled to a plurality of bonding leads respectively via a plurality of bumps (first conductive members), while the second pads are bonded to the terminals via a plurality of bumps (second conductive members).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto Taoka, Atsushi Nakamura, Naozumi Morino, Toshikazu Ishikawa, Nobuhiro Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 8946770
    Abstract: The present invention has for its purpose to provide a technique capable of reducing planar dimension of the semiconductor device. An input/output circuit is formed over the semiconductor substrate, a grounding wiring and a power supply wiring pass over the input/output circuit, and a conductive layer for a bonding pad is formed thereover. The input/output circuit is formed of MISFET elements in the nMISFET forming region and the pMISFET forming region, resistance elements in the resistance element forming regions and diode elements in the diode element forming regions functioning as protective elements. A wiring connected to the protective elements and positioned under the grounding wiring and the power supply wiring is pulled out in a pulling-out region between the nMISFET forming region and the pMISFET forming region and between the grounding wiring and the power supply wiring to be connected to the conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Hayashi, Shunsuke Toyoshima, Kazuo Sakamoto, Naozumi Morino, Kazuo Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20140354331
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device comprises I/O cells arranged around a core region. Each of the I/O cells comprises a level shifter circuit, an I/O logic circuit, and an I/O buffer circuit. An I/O logic region in which the I/O logic circuit is arranged and an I/O buffer region in which the I/O buffer circuit is arranged overlap with a region in which a pad for the I/O cell is arranged. The I/O logic region and the I/O buffer region are arranged side by side in a direction parallel to a side of the core region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Kazuo SAKAMOTO, Naozumi MORINO, Kazuo TANAKA, Hiroyasu ISHIZUKA
  • Patent number: 8896129
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a circuit region where a circuit element is formed, a multilayer wiring layer that is formed on the substrate and composed of a plurality of wiring layers and a plurality of via layers that are laminated, and an electrode pad that is formed on the multilayer wiring layer. An interlayer insulating film is formed in a region of a first wiring layer that is a top layer of the plurality of wiring layers, in the region the electrode pad and the first circuit region overlapping each other in a planar view of the electrode pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Mori, Kazuki Fukuoka, Naozumi Morino, Yoshinori Deguchi
  • Patent number: 8810278
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device comprises I/O cells arranged around a core region. Each of the I/O cells comprises a level shifter circuit, an I/O logic circuit, and an I/O buffer circuit. An I/O logic region in which the I/O logic circuit is arranged and an I/O buffer region in which the I/O buffer circuit is arranged overlap with a region in which a pad for the I/O cell is arranged. The I/O logic region and the I/O buffer region are arranged side by side in a direction parallel to a side of the core region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Sakamoto, Naozumi Morino, Kazuo Tanaka, Hiroyasu Ishizuka
  • Publication number: 20140193954
    Abstract: The reliability of a semiconductor device is to be improved. A microcomputer chip (semiconductor chip) having a plurality of pads formed on a main surface thereof is mounted over an upper surface of a wiring substrate in an opposed state of the chip main surface to the substrate upper surface. Pads coupled to a plurality of terminals (bonding leads) formed over the substrate upper surface comprise a plurality of first pads in which a unique electric current different from the electric current flowing through other pads flows and a plurality of second pads in which an electric current common to the pads flows or does not flow. Another first pad of the first pads or one of the second pads are arranged next to the first pad. The first pads are electrically coupled to a plurality of bonding leads respectively via a plurality of bumps (first conductive members), while the second pads are bonded to the terminals via a plurality of bumps (second conductive members).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto Taoka, Atsushi Nakamura, Naozumi Morino, Toshikazu Ishikawa, Nobuhiro Kinoshita