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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2002
Fuji Electric Co., Ltd., Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
To improve the capability to withstand noises and surges in a semiconductor integrated circuit in which an RC filter for cutting electromagnetic wave noises is integrated with analog circuits and digital circuits, a positive electrode of a capacitor constituting the RC filter is disposed apart from circuit elements or connection lines constituting the circuits at such an interval as to prevent malfunction of the circuit elements resulting from a noise superimposed on the positive electrode, or dielectric breakdown of the capacitor constituting the RC filter and latch-up and dielectric breakdown of the circuit elements resulting from a surge applied to the positive electrode. The interval is larger than the minimum interval required by a layout rule or five times longer than the minimum.