Abstract: A method for determining the layout of an interconnect line is provided including: providing a required width for the interconnect line; determining a layout of the interconnect line including slotting the interconnect line to provide two or more fingers extending along the interconnect line with an elongate slot separating adjacent fingers; and determining a number of elongate apertures to be arranged across the width of the interconnect line by comparing the required width with a maximal width for a solid metal feature, and a minimal elongate aperture width. The two or more fingers and elongate slot may be of constant width and equally spaced across the interconnect line width. The method may include selecting the number of fingers and the width of the slots to optimize the layout for a given layer technology.

Abstract: A method for determining the layout of an interconnect line is provided including: providing a required width for the interconnect line; determining a layout of the interconnect line including slotting the interconnect line to provide two or more fingers extending along the interconnect line with an elongate slot separating adjacent fingers; and determining a number of elongate apertures to be arranged across the width of the interconnect line by comparing the required width with a maximal width for a solid metal feature, and a minimal elongate aperture width. The two or more fingers and elongate slot may be of constant width and equally spaced across the interconnect line width. The method may include selecting the number of fingers and the width of the slots to optimize the layout for a given layer technology.

Abstract: A system and method is provided for that allows the introduction of small sections of idealized conductive elements to be placed along a transmission line. The output is a partitioned transmission line whose segments between the idealized conductive elements are analyzed via circuit simulators as a distributed parasitic network, as opposed to the widely used lumped parasitic elements approach for the entire line. The distributed parasitic network system and method provides circuit designers with a parasitic extraction tool which allows the designer to define a transmission line segment for analysis, and create sub-networks of parasitic elements across the transmission line. These elements can then be passed to existing vendor circuit simulators for parasitic analysis, the result of which are more accurate than that derived using existing extraction tools whose output is limited to only a lumped parasitic parameter along the line.