Complete die taps and partial die taps from universal designs

The invention relates to full die taps and partial die taps from universal designs. The invention discloses a chip design method and a set of integrated circuits for tape-out from a universal design database. Regions of a complete instance of the integrated circuit are defined, and one or more split lines are defined to identify portions to be removed for one or more partial instances. Various techniques and mechanisms are defined to allow taping from a generic design database such that the work of taping partial instances other than the work of taping the complete instance can be minimized. 本发明涉及来自通用设计的完整裸片流片和部分裸片流片。本发明公开了一种芯片设计方法以及从通用设计数据库进行流片的一组集成电路。定义了该集成电路的完整实例的区域，并且定义了一条或多条分割线以识别将针对一个或多个部分实例被去除的部分。定义了各种技术和机制以允许从通用设计数据库发生流片，使得可以使除了对该完整实例进行流片的工作以外的对部分实例进行流片的工作最小化。