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VLSID
1999
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
New and Exact Filling Algorithms for Layout Density Control
To reduce manufacturing variation due to chemicalmechanical polishing and to improve yield, layout must be made uniform with respect to density criteria. This is achieved by layou...
Andrew B. Kahng, Gabriel Robins, Anish Singh, Alex...
TCAD
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
CMP Fill Synthesis: A Survey of Recent Studies
We survey recent research and practice in the area of chemical
Andrew B. Kahng, Kambiz Samadi
ISPD
2010
ACM
195views Hardware» more  ISPD 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
Density gradient minimization with coupling-constrained dummy fill for CMP control
In the nanometer IC design, dummy fill is often performed to improve layout pattern uniformity and the post-CMP quality. However, filling dummies might greatly increase intercon...
Huang-Yu Chen, Szu-Jui Chou, Yao-Wen Chang
ASPDAC
1999
ACM
107views Hardware» more  ASPDAC 1999»
13 years 9 months ago
New Multilevel and Hierarchical Algorithms for Layout Density Control
Certain manufacturing steps in very deep submicron VLSI involve chemical-mechanical polishing CMP which has varying e ects on device and interconnect features, depending on loca...
Andrew B. Kahng, Gabriel Robins, Anish Singh, Alex...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Provably good and practically efficient algorithms for CMP dummy fill
Abstract--To reduce chip-scale topography variation in Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) process, dummy fill is widely used to improve the layout density uniformity. Previous res...
Chunyang Feng, Hai Zhou, Changhao Yan, Jun Tao, Xu...