Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Process controller for semiconductor manufacturing, utilizing dangerous pattern identification and process capability determination
- Patent Title (中): 用于半导体制造的过程控制器,利用危险模式识别和过程能力确定
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Application No.: US12354574Application Date: 2009-01-15
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Publication No.: US08112167B2Publication Date: 2012-02-07
- Inventor: Ayako Endo , Kenji Yoshida , Toshiya Kotani , Satoshi Tanaka
- Applicant: Ayako Endo , Kenji Yoshida , Toshiya Kotani , Satoshi Tanaka
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2008-009218 20080118
- Main IPC: G06F19/00
- IPC: G06F19/00 ; G06F17/50

Abstract:
A process control method comprises adjusting a process condition in consideration of a performance variation among a plurality of manufacturing apparatuses, the performance variation affecting a finished shape of a pattern used to manufacture a semiconductor device, running a simulation of the finished shape under the adjusted process condition, extracting a dangerous point of the pattern affecting satisfaction from the result of the simulation, comparing a first process capability serving as a judgment standard to find whether a production schedule of the device is achieved with a second capability serving to form a dangerous pattern containing the dangerous point, and improving the second process when the second process capability is lower than the first process capability.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090192643A1 PROCESS CONTROLLER, PROCESS CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM Public/Granted day:2009-07-30
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