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The document discusses two errors in a standard cell design related to n-well and substrate connections. The first error is that the spacing between an n+ diffusion and n-well is less than the minimum allowed distance. To fix this, the n-well must be connected to VDD to make it a "cold" n-well. The second error is that the substrate/n-well is not properly connected, which can be fixed by adding a pin connected to VSS or VDD as appropriate.

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HOTNwell

The document discusses two errors in a standard cell design related to n-well and substrate connections. The first error is that the spacing between an n+ diffusion and n-well is less than the minimum allowed distance. To fix this, the n-well must be connected to VDD to make it a "cold" n-well. The second error is that the substrate/n-well is not properly connected, which can be fixed by adding a pin connected to VSS or VDD as appropriate.

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OD.C.3 ndiff spacing to hot nwell < 2.

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A hot n-well is defined as an n-well that is not connected to the highest voltage (ie. VDD). Similarly, a cold n-well is defined as an n-well that is connected to the highest voltage. In this case, the rule is about the spacing from the n+ diffusion ( ndiff ) to the n-well. To fix this, the nwell must be biased appropriately (since the minimum distance to a cold n-well is only 1.2 um) or the distance should be increased. Since the error occurs in a standard cell, the only possible solut ion is to bias the well. To tell the DRC tool that the well is biased to vdd, a pin must be created in th e current cell with the name VDD! (the ! indicates a global net). Other possible names include vdd and VDD ; i act, it appears that the DRC tool will allow any pin name that has the characters vdd i n them. The tool is somewhat case insensitive, although the names vdD , vDD and vDd are not acceptable. The details can be found on page 11 of the process design rules (page 12 on the pdf file), w hile the discussion of hot/cold n-wells can be found on page 6 of the process design rules (page 7 in t he pdf). Warning: substrate/well soft connected This error comes from the fact that the substrate has either been left unconnect ed, or that it hasn t been connected to a net. Ideally, the substrate is connected to the lowest possi ble voltage (in an nwell process). In the standard cell, this has been done by connecting the substr ate to vss. However, this must be indicated at the current cell as well. This is done by placing a pi n in the current view, connecting the net to VSS! (or any similarly spelled name, similar to the previous case). This warning also applies to n-wells as well, which should be connected to VDD. In this particular instance, fixing the previous error will also correct this warning as it applies to the n-well. Discussion about this warning is not found in the process design rules, although the warning itself describes enough to understand what is wrong.

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