Integrated Circuit Test Engineering

Modern Techniques

 

CIF File Example


 

Chapter 2

 

                        Fig. 2.10

 

Figure 2.10 is a static CMOS inverter cell CIF file. The layout is shown below.

 

 

 

 

The layers use are:

 

CIF File Layer Name

Layer Description

Colour

 

 

 

NWELL

N-type material well in p-substrate

Light pink (no fill)

PPLUS

P+ material

Light pink (speckled fill)

DIFF

Diffusion (defining active area of transistors)

 

NPLUS

N+ material

Yellow (speckled fill)

POLY1

Polysilicon layer number 1

Red (shaded)

CONTACT

Connection between either

(i) POLY1 and METAL1

(ii) METAL1 and NPLUS

(iii) METAL1 and PPLUS

Light green (Solid fill)

METAL1

Metal layer number 1

Dark blue (shaded)