Metal interconnect lines in Ie circuits form parasitic MOS capacitors as illustrated in Fig. 5-37. Generally. one wants to prevent the underlying Si substrate from becoming inverted. Otherwise, parasitic transistors may be formed and create undesirable current paths between the N+ diffusions.
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