According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a standard cell, including a cell frame having a rectangular region, a power supply interconnection, a center line of the power supply interconnection overlapping with a side line along a first direction of the cell frame, a via contact, the center of the via contact overlapping with the center line of the power supply interconnection and a grid having a minimum interval in a layout of the via contacts, wherein a width of the cell along the first direction is an integral multiplication of the grid and the center of the via contact is at a distance of at least 1.5 multiplication of the grid from the nearest apex in the cell frame.

 
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