ASTRA FILL

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
ASTRA-FIL	IMERYS CLAYS, INC.	100 Mansell Court East, Suite 300 Roswell GA 30076	ASTRA-FILL;KAOLIN CLAY USED AS A FILLER IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

An integrated circuit and a method for using metal fill geometries to reduce the voltage drop in power meshes. Metal fill geometries are connected to the power mesh using vias or wires at multiple locations. Metal fill geometries are connected to other floating metal fill geometries using vias or wires at multiple locations. The circuit design introduces maximum redundancy between metal fill geometries and power mesh geometries, but partial redundancy between metal fill geometries and metal fill geometries. In particular, the redundancy in connectivity between metal fill geometries and metal fill geometries is kept minimal to reduce the number of geometries introduced. The high redundancy between metal fill geometries and power mesh geometries and the partial redundancy among metal fill geometries result in a smaller IR-drop by reducing the effective resistance on a power mesh. Hence, the invention use redundancy carefully and advantageously to achieve simultaneous metal density and IR-drop optimization without introducing excessive number of metal fill geometries.