Semiconductor device using diode place-holders and method of manufacture thereof

摘要

In operation, a standard cell library having diode place-holders (16) associated with standard cell inputs (12) is used to design a standard cell-based semiconductor device. Each standard cell in the standard cell-based semiconductor device is analyzed to determine if its standard cell inputs (12) will be connected to a conductive element (18) during processing that can accumulate a charge. When a conductive element (18) that can accumulate charge is identified, the diode place-holder (16) associated with its standard cell input (12) is replaced with a diode (16).