PURPOSE: To satisfy connection requirements between a bump and an input terminal or an output terminal of an I/O cell inside a chip without being affected by the result of wiring layout design inside a chip.
CONSTITUTION: A unit area is set to each cell registered in a cell library in such a fashion that it may not interfere with chip inside wirings, and what is more, the unit area is designed to cross the cell. When having formed a row of cells 40, which are laid out as described above, the unit areas are shaped up in a continuous band, thereby securing a dedicated area 33. After cell-to-cell wiring layout design inside the chip is completed, the wirings are installed in the dedicated area 33, thereby designing wirings between a bump and an input terminal or an output terminal of an I/O cell.