Patent ID: 7666747

Claim:
A process for manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising: forming a field effect transistor in a device area of a surface of a semiconductor substrate and forming a discharge high-concentration impurity region in a grid area of the surface of the semiconductor substrate; forming an intermediate insulating film over the semiconductor substrate; forming a wiring pattern using a dry etching method, the wiring pattern connected to a gate electrode of the field effect transistor through a first contact hole provided in the intermediate insulating film placed over the device area and connected to the discharge high-concentration impurity region through a second contact hole provided in the intermediate insulating film placed over the grid area; and cutting the semiconductor substrate at a boundary between the device area and the grid area, to remove the grid area of the semiconductor substrate from the device area of the semiconductor substrate, wherein said forming a wiring pattern further includes forming a region-to-region wiring pattern of a non-metal conductive material as extending over the device area and the grid area, forming an interlayer insulating film over the intermediate insulating film, etching the intermediate insulating film and the interlayer insulating film to thereby form the first contact hole over the gate electrode and the second contact hole over the discharge high-concentration impurity region, and etching the interlayer insulating film to form a third contact hole over the region-to-region wiring lying in the device area and a fourth contact hole over the region-to-region wiring lying in the grid area, depositing a conductive material layer within the first through fourth contact holes and over the interlayer insulating film, and processing the conductive material layer provided over the interlayer insulating film using the dry etching method, to thereby form in-region wiring patterns between the first and third contact holes and between the second and fourth contact holes.