Auxiliary pattern for cell-based OPC

Andrew B. Kahng; Chul-Hong Park

doi:10.1117/12.692582

20 October 2006 Auxiliary pattern for cell-based OPC

Andrew B. Kahng, Chul-Hong Park

Proceedings Volume 6349, Photomask Technology 2006; 63494S (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.692582
Event: SPIE Photomask Technology, 2006, Monterey, California, United States

Abstract

The runtime of model-based optical proximity correction (OPC) tools has grown unacceptably with each successive technology generation, and has emerged as one of the major bottlenecks for turnaround time (TAT) of IC data preparation and manufacturing. The cell-based OPC approach improves runtime by performing OPC once per cell definition as opposed to once per cell instantiation in the layout. However, cell-based OPC does not comprehend inter-cell optical interactions that affect feature printability in a layout context. In this work, we propose auxiliary pattern-enabled cell-based OPC which can minimize the CD differences between cell-based OPC and model-based OPC. To enable effective insertion of auxiliary pattern (AP) in the design, we also propose a post-placement optimization of a standard cell block with respect to detailed placement. By dynamic programming-based placement perturbation, we achieve 100% AP applicability in designs with placement utilizations of < 70%. In an evaluation with a complete industrial flow, cell-based OPC with AP can match gate edge placement error (EPE) count of model-based OPC within 4%. This is an improvement of 90%, on average, over cell-based OPC without APs. The AP-based OPC approach can reduce OPC runtimes versus model-based OPC by up to 40X in our benchmark designs. We can also achieve reduction of GDSII file size and ORC runtimes due to hierarchy maintenance of cell-based OPC.

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Andrew B. Kahng and Chul-Hong Park "Auxiliary pattern for cell-based OPC", Proc. SPIE 6349, Photomask Technology 2006, 63494S (20 October 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.692582

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