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Fast lithographic mask optimization considering process variation


Abstract:

As nanometer technology advances, conventional OPC (Optical Proximity Correction) that minimizes the EPE (Edge Placement Error) at the nominal corner alone often leads to...Show More

Abstract:

As nanometer technology advances, conventional OPC (Optical Proximity Correction) that minimizes the EPE (Edge Placement Error) at the nominal corner alone often leads to poor process window. To improve the mask printability across various process corners, process-window OPC optimizes EPE for multiple process corners, but often suffers long runtime, due to repeated lithographic simulations. This paper presents an efficient process-variation-aware mask optimization framework, namely PVOPC (Process-Variation OPC), to simultaneously minimize EPE and PV (Process-Variation) band with fast convergence. The PVOPC framework includes EPE-sensitivity-driven dynamic fragmentation, process-variation-aware EPE modeling, and post correction with three new EPE-converging techniques and a systematic sub-resolution assisted feature insertion algorithm. Experimental results show that our approach efficiently achieves high-quality EPE and PV band results.
Date of Conference: 02-06 November 2014
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 08 January 2015
Electronic ISBN:978-1-4799-6278-5

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Conference Location: San Jose, CA, USA

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