摘要:
In the verification method of the present invention, a defect that is to cause a problem in fabrication is extracted from a mask pattern. The mask pattern is one obtained by deforming a mask pattern of a photomask used in a photolithography process so as to provide a transferred image close to a desired design pattern. The verification method includes the steps of: determining the exposure dose in the photolithography process; simulating the photolithography process on a computer based on the determined exposure dose; checking whether or not the desired design pattern has been obtained; and locating a fault point and outputting the result.
摘要:
To provide a semiconductor integrated circuit device capable of effectively absorbing power supply noise, of achieving the stable operation of a circuit, and particularly, of absorbing noise in a vicinity of a noise generating source. The semiconductor integrated circuit device has at least one circuit block. The semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a bypass capacitor having a first conductor layer 1a formed on the circuit block and a second conductor layer 1b formed on the first conductor layer 1a with a capacitor insulating film 1c interposed therebetween. One of the first and second conductor layers of the bypass capacitor is connected to one of a grounding wiring line or a power supply wiring lines through a substrate contact which fixes a potential of a substrate and the other is connected to the other of the power supply wiring line or the grounding wiring line.
摘要:
A semiconductor device geometrical pattern correction process, semiconductor device manufacturing process and geometrical pattern extraction process are provided, which make it possible to eliminate the adverse effect of corner rounding accompanying miniaturization, that is, a decrease in the projection amount of a gate, while avoiding increased chip area. The correction process comprises a step 102 of detecting a concave diffusion layer corresponding portion and a step 103 of correcting either the concave diffusion layer corresponding portion or a transistor gate corresponding portion which projects from the concave diffusion layer corresponding portion in order to ensure the projection of the gate from the concave diffusion layer corresponding portion against possible corner rounding.
摘要:
To provide a pattern generating method for a semiconductor device capable of forming a highly reliable semiconductor device, the accuracy of which is high.A method of generating a pattern for a semiconductor device comprises: a step of designing and arranging a layout pattern of a semiconductor chip; a step of extracting an area ratio of the mask pattern from the layout pattern; and a step of adding and arranging a dummy pattern to the layout pattern, while consideration is given to the most appropriate area ratio of the layout pattern of the layer obtained according to a process condition of the layer composing the layout pattern, so that the area ratio of the layer can be the most appropriate area ratio.
摘要:
To provide a semiconductor device characterized in that: a decoupling capacitor can be increased; noise generated from an electric power supply can be effectively absorbed; and a stable operation of a circuit can be realized.Irrespective of whether or not a region is close to a power supply wiring or a ground wiring, MOS is spread all over a spare area of a chip and connected to a power supply wiring and ground wiring by utilizing a wiring layer and diffusion layer.
摘要:
In order that CAD processing time required for modifying an input design pattern to compensate for optical proximity effects is reduced, increases in the number of base shapes when corrected data are converted into EB data are restricted, and false detection of defects in a photomask inspection process is restricted, the following steps are taken. At a shape selection step, rectangular shapes are divided into a dense rectangular shape group and a non-dense rectangular shape group according to the distance of each rectangular shape to an adjacent rectangular shape. At a number-of-shapeas comparison step, the number of shapes included in the dense rectangular shape group is compared to the number of shapes included in the non-dense rectangular shape group to select either shape group for correction. At a correction process selection step, a correction process suited for the selected shape group is selected. At a shape correction step, optical proximity correction is made. At a shape combining step, a group of corrected shapes and the rectangular shape group different from the selected one are combined.
摘要:
It is an object of the invention to effectively absorb a power noise and to implement the stable operation of a circuit. The invention provides a semiconductor device comprising a bypass capacitor including an MOS structure having a gate electrode formed to be extended from a power wiring region to a portion provided under an empty region which is adjacent to the power wiring region and has no other functional layer, and formed through a capacitive insulating film on a diffusion region having one conductivity type, and a substrate contact formed under a ground wiring region and fixing a substrate potential, wherein the bypass capacitor has a contact to come in contact with the power wiring which is formed on a surface of the gate electrode and has the diffusion region having the one conductivity type and a diffusion region of the substrate contact connected to each other.
摘要:
With respect to layout data of a semiconductor integrated circuit, a latch-up verifying operation is carried out in high precision. In a latch-up verifying method, a well region, a transistor region, and a substrate contact region are extracted from layout data of a semiconductor integrated circuit formed on a semiconductor substrate; and steps for separately setting over-sizing values are sequentially executed based upon the respective extracted information.
摘要:
A method of inspecting a photomask for a semiconductor integrated circuit formed based on drawing pattern data, includes the steps of classifying a drawing pattern of the semiconductor integrated circuit into a plurality of ranks in accordance with a predetermined reference and extracting the same, determining inspecting accuracy for each of the ranks, and deciding quality of the photomask depending on whether the determined inspecting accuracy is satisfied.
摘要:
A method for optimizing electromagnetic interference (EMI) comprising: an EMI analyzing step of analyzing a quantity of electromagnetic interference of an LSI by execution of simulation; a step of selecting an instance with a large quantity of noise in said EMI analyzing step; and a step of adjusting a driving capability of said instance so that it is lowered to an extent that a delay does not occur in a signal timing of said instance selected. In order to optimize the analyzed EMI, the portion for which optimizing is required is extracted, and such a measure as increasing the area where the decoupling capacitance is created is implemented for this portion in a necessary degree. Further, by changing the aspect ratio of the block, changing the block position or changing the cell line, the decoupling capacitance can be easily created at the most efficient inserting position.