METHODS FOR OPTICAL PROXIMITY CORRECTION IN THE DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS

A method of manufacturing an optical lithography mask includes providing a patterned layout design comprising a plurality of polygons, correcting the patterned layout design using optical proximity correction (OPC) by adjusting widths and lengths of one or more of the plurality of polygons, to gener...

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Main Authors CLIFFORD CHRISTOPHER HEINZ, COSKUN TAMER, LUKANC TODD
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 07.08.2014
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Summary:A method of manufacturing an optical lithography mask includes providing a patterned layout design comprising a plurality of polygons, correcting the patterned layout design using optical proximity correction (OPC) by adjusting widths and lengths of one or more of the plurality of polygons, to generate a corrected patterned layout design, converting the corrected patterned layout design into a mask writer-compatible format, to generate a mask writer-compatible layout design comprising the plurality of polygons, and biasing each polygon in the plurality of polygons with a bias that accounts for large-scale density values of the patterned layout design, to generate a biased, mask writer-compatible layout design.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201313757286