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H CELL

 A technique begins with listing all the std cells and adding certain other cells based on some criteria.

Any cell contains several thousands of devices and placed multiple times, is a good candidate for the HCell list.

And Some people use hcell is a design methodology ,Where thousands of cells with same name in the layout and source are expected to macth at the cell level.

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