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...
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...
Treemaps, a space-filling method of visualizing large hierarchical data sets, are receiving increasing attention. Several algorithms have been proposed to create more useful displ...
Benjamin B. Bederson, Ben Shneiderman, Martin Watt...
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...