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Stitch aware detailed placement for multiple e-beam lithography


Abstract:

As a promising candidate for next generation lithography, multiple e-beam lithography (MEBL) is able to improve manufacturing throughput using parallel beam printing. In ...Show More

Abstract:

As a promising candidate for next generation lithography, multiple e-beam lithography (MEBL) is able to improve manufacturing throughput using parallel beam printing. In MEBL, a layout is split into stripes and the layout patterns are cut by stripe boundaries, then all the stripes are printed in parallel. If a via pattern or a vertical long wire is overlapping with a stitch, it may suffer from poor printing quality due to the so called stitch error; then the circuit performance may be degraded. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive study on the stitch aware detailed placement to simultaneously minimize the stitch error and optimize traditional objectives, e.g., wirelength and density. Experimental results show that our algorithms are very effective on modified ICCAD 2014 benchmarks that zero stitch error is guaranteed while the scaled half-perimeter wirelength is very comparable to a state-of-the-art detailed placer.
Date of Conference: 25-28 January 2016
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 10 March 2016
ISBN Information:
Electronic ISSN: 2153-697X
Conference Location: Macao, China

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