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Doppler: DPL-aware and OPC-friendly gridless detailed routing with mask density balancing


Abstract:

The printed image of a layout that satisfies the double patterning lithograph (DPL) constraints may not have good fidelity if the layout neglects optical proximity correc...Show More

Abstract:

The printed image of a layout that satisfies the double patterning lithograph (DPL) constraints may not have good fidelity if the layout neglects optical proximity correction (OPC). Simultaneously considering DPL and OPC becomes necessary when gene rating layouts, especially in routing stage. Moreover, one decomposed design with balanced mask density has a lower edge placement error (EPE)than an unbalance done[6]. This work proposes a compre-hensive conflict graph (CCG)to enable detailed routers to simultaneously consider DPL, OPC, and mask density to gene rate litho-friendly layouts. This work then develops an DPL-aware and OPC-friendly gridless detailed routing (DOPPLER) by applying CCG in a gridless routing model. A density variation threshold annealing-based routing flow is also proposed to prevent DOPPLER from falling into a sub-optimal mask density balance. Compared with existing DPL-aware detailed routing works, DOPPLER demon-stratesanaverage 73.84% of EPE hotspot reduction with a satisfactory mask density at the cost of an average increase of 0.08% wire-length, 15.14% number of stitches, and 77.28% runtime.
Date of Conference: 07-10 November 2011
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 15 December 2011
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Conference Location: San Jose, CA, USA

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