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What are tap cells and what is the usage of them?

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tap cell?

I took a look at the floorplan of one block i have, found that there are quite a lot of so call TAP cells been placed. could anybody explain to me what are tap cell and the usage of them?

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It does some sort of substrate connection i think... BTW are you associated with TI ?
 
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To Avoid Latuch up effects, we place TAP cells.

Its just establishing the subtrate & Bulk connection.
 

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Kumar - one clarification - Dont the standard cells themselves contain the substrate and bulk connections ???? Or are these connections excluded from the cells ??
 

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@vinayshivakumar,
Std cell doesn't contains these TAP connections. Actually you don't need to use TAP connection in all the cells. It will increase the cell area & as well as chip area. Normally we place a TAP cell for around 5 or more std cells combined while doing top level routing


@forkschgrad,
I don't have any documents regarding this. The above answer is from my real experience.
 

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Check out this matter it may help u
Bye
 

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@kumar_eee
thanks
@vlsitechnology
Thanks. Which document did you pick this info from...
I had searched a lot for data on it , but never found any stuff....
 

tap cell?

its from soc encounter user manual if I remember well

Suresh
 

yes suresh is right, I have picked from SOC Encounter user manual
 

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