As the technology migrates into the deep submicron manufacturing (DSM) era, the critical dimension of the circuits is getting smaller than the lithographic wavelength. The unavoid...
—As the 193nm lithography is likely to be used for 45nm and even 32nm processes, much more stringent requirement will be posed on Optical Proximity Correction (OPC) technologies....
To handle modern routing with nanometer effects, we need to consider designs of variable wire widths and spacings, for which gridless routers are desirable due to their great fle...
While performance specifications are verified before sign-off for a modern nanometer scale design, extensive application of optical proximity correction substantially alters the l...
Puneet Gupta, Andrew B. Kahng, Youngmin Kim, Denni...
In this paper, we present ELIAD, an efficient lithography aware detailed router to optimize silicon image after optical proximity correction (OPC) in a correct-by-construction man...