Bright-Field AAPSM Conflict Detection and Correction

Details Bright-Field AAPSM Conflict Detection and Correction Bright-Field AAPSM Conflict Detection and Correction

2007-10-25

arxiv.org/abs/0710.4661v1

Dans Design, Automation and Test in Europe - DATE'05, Munich : Allemagne (2005)

Computer Science

Hardware Architecture

Submitted on behalf of EDAA (http://www.edaa.com/)

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As feature sizes shrink, it will be necessary to use AAPSM (Alternating-Aperture Phase Shift Masking) to image critical features, especially on the polysilicon layer. This imposes additional constraints on the layouts beyond traditional design rules. Of particular note is the requirement that all critical features be flanked by opposite-phase shifters, while the shifters obey minimum width and spacing requirements. A layout is called phase-assignable if it satisfies this requirement. If a layout is not phase-assignable, the phase conflicts have to removed to enable the use of AAPSM for the layout. Previous work has sought to detect a suitable set of phase Conflicts to be removed, as well as correct them. The contribution of this paper are the following: (1) a new approach to detect a minimal set of phase conflicts (also referred to as AAPSM conflicts), which when corrected will produce a phase-assignable layout; (2) a novel layout modification scheme for correcting these AAPSM conflicts. The proposed approach for conflict detection shows significant improvements in the quality of results and runtime for real industrial circuits, when compared to previous methods. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time layout modification results are presented for bright-field AAPSM. Our experiments show that the percentage area increase for making a layout phase-assignable ranges from 0.7-11.8%.

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