An apparatus for preserving food products in a pulsed electric field comprises a treatment chamber having an inlet for food products to be treated and an outlet fortreated food products and has an effective area of flow having rounded corners. A non-speed circuit path includes inverter chains that operate to reduce sub-threshold leakage current regardless of an operating mode of the semiconductor device. The anchor structure or structures prevent the bonding pad from exerting excessive force against the dielectric layer and cracking the dielectric layer when the chip is subjected to physical testing.