摘要:
A placer produces a global placement plan specifying positions of cell instances and orientations of macros within an integrated circuit (IC) by initially clusterizing cell instances and macros to form a pyramidal hierarchy of blocks. Then the placer iteratively repeats the declusterization and routability improvement process from the highest level to the lowest level of the hierarchy. An objective function is provided in Cartesian coordinate for representing the position of each movable instance and in polar coordinate for representing the orientation of a macro relative to its the center. For each movable instance and each rotatable macro, its position or orientation is determined by conjugate gradient method to minimize total wire length. Finally, the placer uses a look-ahead legalization technique to rotate rotatable macros to legal orientations and move cell instances to legal positions in the end of global placement.
摘要:
A method for concurrent migration and decomposition of an integrated circuit layout applicable to double patterning lithography techniques is provided. The method includes cutting a sub-pattern of an initial pattern to configure a potentially conflicting pattern having separate or cutting sections; removing odd cycles in the potential conflicting pattern so as to cut the separate or cutting sections; configuring the double patterning constraint based upon corresponding location relations between each and adjacent cut sections; and assigning a first color layer or a second color layer to the cut sections according to the double patterning constraint to obtain a final layout pattern. Therefore, disadvantageous factors and patterning conflicts caused by separate processes as encountered in the prior art are avoided.
摘要:
A layout decomposition method, applicable to a double pattern lithography, includes the steps of: putting at least a stitch on each of a plurality of sub-patterns of an initial layout pattern at preset intervals to thereby divide the each of the plurality of sub-patterns into a plurality of unit blocks each selectively labeled as a first region or a second region such that the first region and the second region in same said sub-pattern alternate, wherein any two neighboring ones of said unit blocks attributed to any two neighboring ones of said sub-patterns, respectively, are labeled as the first region and the second region, respectively; reducing the stitches of any two neighboring ones of said unit blocks attributed to any two neighboring ones of said sub-patterns, respectively, so as to generate a first layout pattern having a minimum number of stitches; and reducing the stitches of any two contiguous ones of said unit blocks of each of said sub-patterns in the first layout pattern, so as to generate a second layout pattern having a minimum number of stitches.
摘要:
The invention is directed to a method for forming a memory array. The method comprises steps of providing a substrate having a charge trapping structure formed thereon. A patterned material layer is formed over the substrate and the patterned material layer having a plurality of trenches expose a portion of the charge trapping structure. Furthermore, a plurality of conductive spacers are formed on the sidewalls of the trenches of the patterned material layer respectively and a portion of the charge trapping structure at the bottom of the trenches is exposed by the conductive spacers. An insulating layer is formed over the substrate to fill up the trenches of the patterned material layer. Moreover, a planarization process is performed to remove a portion of the insulating layer until a top surface of the patterned material layer and a top surface of each of the conductive spacers are exposed.
摘要:
A method and a circuit for extracting current-voltage characteristics employ two pulse signals with different duty cycles into a device to be measured in order to extracting current-voltage characteristics of the device to be measured. The present invention may reduce the self-heating effect of the device to be measured and increase the measurable range of the device to be measured.
摘要:
A multi-packing tree (MPT) macro placer. The MPT macro placer comprises reading input files in a LEF/DEF format, creating a k-level binary multi-packing tree comprising k branch nodes each corresponding to one level and k+1 packing sub-trees each corresponding to one of the nodes and comprising a group of macros, optimizing the multi-packing tree according to a packing result thereof, and generating output files in a DEF format.
摘要:
A method of narrowing the threshold voltage distribution in a memory. The method includes separating the erase and erase identification of odd memory cells from the erase and erase identification of even memory cells in an advanced non-volatile memory so that the distribution of the threshold voltage is narrowed.
摘要:
This invention relates to a voltage regulated circuit, more particularly, to a voltage regulated circuit with a well resistor divider. The present invention applies two well resistors act as the voltage regulated circuit and uses the characteristic of the well resistor in the resistance value, which is increased following the voltage that is transmitted to the well resistor to make an output voltage become a stable value. When the input voltage is an instable and over-high value, the depletion region in the well resistor will extend to absorb the over-high voltage value and make the output voltage to become a stable voltage value.
摘要:
A method for fabricating a nitride read only device is disclosed. A trench is formed in a semiconductor substrate. An ion implantation is performed to form a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region within the substrate in the upper corners of the trench, and to form a common source/drain region within the substrate at a bottom of the trench. Next, a trapping layer is formed over the substrate and the trench and a gate conducting layer is formed over the substrate and filling the trench.
摘要:
A contact image sensor is received and held in a holder slidably mounted on a rectangular lower frame and is disposed in parallel to the two short sides of the lower frame to pick up the image of a detection object placed on the transparent plate mounted on a rectangular upper frame. A rod-like guiding member having two ends respectively mounted on the center of the two short sides of the lower frame, disposed orthogonal to the longitudinal holder, for guiding the movement of the holder is provided. A connecting member slidably mounted on the guiding member and detachably connected to the holder near the center thereof is provided. A biasing member for biasing the holder upwardly, disposed between the connecting member and the holder is also provided.