Patent ID: 9570553
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: H01L

Claim:
1. A semiconductor chip, comprising: a semiconductor body with a bottom side and with a top side arranged distant from the bottom side in a vertical direction; an active transistor region and a non-active transistor region; a drift region formed in the semiconductor body; a contact terminal pad for externally contacting the semiconductor chip; a plurality of transistor cells formed in the semiconductor body, wherein each of the transistor cells comprises a first electrode; and a plurality of connection lines, each of which electrically connects another one of the first electrodes to the contact terminal pad at a connecting location of the respective connection line, wherein each of the connection lines comprises a resistance section formed of a locally increased specific resistance relative to a specific resistance of adjacent semiconductor material of the respective connection line; and wherein each of the connecting locations and each of the resistance sections is arranged in the non-active transistor region.