Acronym · Process Technology
CPP (Contacted Poly Pitch)
The centre-to-centre distance between adjacent transistor gates including the contact between them, the fundamental horizontal scaling dimension in the front end.
It bounds how narrow a standard cell can be.
- Also known as
- Gate pitch, CGP, Poly pitch
- Type
- Acronym
- Domain
- Process Technology, Node and scaling
Notes
CPP and minimum metal pitch are the two numbers analysts use to sanity-check a node name against real geometry.
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