The design of integrated circuits, i.e., semiconductor products, is made
easier with a semiconductor platform having versatile power mesh that is
capable of supporting simultaneous operations having different
frequencies on the semiconductor product; e.g., higher frequency
operations may be embedded as diffused blocks within the lower layers or
may be programmed from a configurable transistor fabric above the
diffused layers. Preferably the power mesh is located above the layers
having the operations requiring the different frequencies, and may be
fixed in an application set given to a chip designer or may be
configurable by the designer her/himself. For example, to support high
speed communications adjacent an embedded high speed data transceiver,
the transistor fabric may be programmed as a data link layer having
higher performance requirements than the rest of the integrated circuit.
The data link layer may be connected to one of the localized grids of the
versatile power mesh which may have an increased density and/or wider
strap width of a power/ground grid. Additional decoupling capacitance can
be embedded in the lower layers of the semiconductor product and/or can
be programmed from the configurable transistors fabric.