Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a reliable method and a device which enable design-keeping transition from an existing non-fin design structure to a functionally identical structure based on a technology of a double-gate fin-base field-effect transistor FinFET in a metal-oxide semiconductor MOS, a device of a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor CMOS, and designing chips of the semiconductors. SOLUTION: The corresponding cell structure "C" 512 contains an arrangement of a cell structure "A" and a cell structure "B" that include no previously generated fins. Consideration is made on arrangement combinations of a cell structure "A" and a cell structure "B" generated in this design hierarchy to other cell structures. A fin generation tool decides not to arrange the fins in the cell structure "A" and cell structure "B" in this hierarchy. The fin generation is delegated to the hierarchy, thus revealing a combined fin shape 560 without steps as indicated by a circle. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
The present invention provides a FinFET device that has a first fin and a second fin. Each fin has a channel region and source and drain regions that extend from the channel region. The fins have different heights. The invention has a gate conductor positioned adjacent the fins. The gate conductor runs perpendicular to the fins and crosses the channel region of each of the first fin and second fin. The fins are parallel to one another. The ratio of the height of the first fin to the height of the second fin comprises a ratio of one to 2/3. The ratio is used to tune the performance of the transistor and determines the total channel width of the transistor.