Standard Cell

Standard cell devices do not have the

concept of a basic cell and no components
are prefabricated on the silicon chip.

The manufacturer creates custom masks for

every stage of the device’s process which
leads to a more efficient utilization of silicon
as compared to gate arrays.

Manufacturers supply hard-macro and soft-

macro libraries containing elements of LSI
and VLSI complexity, such as controllers,
ALUs and microprocessors.

Additionally, soft-macro libraries contain

RAM functions that cannot be implemented
efficiently in gate array devices; ROM
functions are more efficiently implemented
in cell primitives.