| Autor: |
Pusuluri, Ramana Murthy V. M., Bashaboina, Pavan Y., Oberschmidt, James M. |
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Proceedings of SPIE; April 2011, Vol. 8081 Issue: 1 p80810T-80810T-7, 727298p |
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Depth of focus has always been of great concern in lightography as a result of processes optimized for specific feature dimensions and pitches. Insertion of sub-resolution assist features (SRAFs) or scatter bars ois a common technique used to equalize DOF through the variety of geometries used in a design. SRAFs can be inserted into the layout by a variety of means ranging from methods based on simple rule-tables to full-fledged layout simulations. Various tools are available from electronic design automation (EDA) vendors that are capable of placing srafs based on elaborate simulations of the design layout, but, a tool that can determine rule-table is not available. Each resolution enhancement technique (RET) engineer has his/her own methodology of extracting rules based on simulation of a large layout with design and sraf rule variations. Significant computational resources are required to carry-out these extensive simulations affecting the time required to formulate the rule table and restricting the variation that can be considered for the simulations. In this paper, we discuss an efficient method which overcomes this problem by searching in the design and dsraf rule domain to obtain a comprehensive set of sraf rules, thereby resulting in a better rule-set by using significantly lesser computational resources. |
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