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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve gap-filling characteristics by performing the reaction and adhesion of an F-BPSG layer under specific ranges of pressure and temperature by the mixture of a reduced pressure chemical vapor growth process and the reactants of TEOS and FTES. SOLUTION: Orthotetraethyl silicate(TEOS), fluoroalkoxysilane(FTES) containing fluorine, boron and phosphor dopants, and an oxygen supply source are mixed with each another for reaction at a temperature of approximately 650-850 deg., under a pressure of approximately 0.5-5 torr in a chamber. Then, a fluorine dope BPSG layer (borophospho-silicate-glass) 22 that is generated by a reaction is allowed to adhere onto a semiconductor substrate 11 which is arranged in the chamber. Then, a layered semiconductor element is subjected to reflow at a temperature that is lower than approximately 800 deg.C, thus flattening the adhering layer and as a result filling the opening of a wafer 10 with a large aspect ratio and a small gap with the same adhesion/annealing temperature and the same dopant concentration of boron and phosphor.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a multiprocessor system including automatic workload distribution. SOLUTION: When threads are executed in the multiprocessor system, an operating system or a hypervisor continuously learns the execution characteristics of the threads, and saves information in thread-specific control blocks. The execution characteristics are used to generate thread performance data. When the thread is executed, the operating system continuously uses performance data to steer the thread to a core that will execute the workload most efficiently. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
A capacitor (180) in a semiconductor substrate (10) employs a conductive through-substrate via (TSV) (80) as an inner electrode and a columnar doped semiconductor region as an outer electrode. The capacitor (80) provides a large decoupling capacitance in a small area, and does not impact circuit density or a Si3D structural design. Additional conductive TSVs can be provided in the semiconductor substrate (10) to provide electrical connection for power supplies and signal transmission therethrough. The capacitor (180) has a lower inductance than a conventional array of capacitors having comparable capacitance, thereby enabling reduction of high frequency noise in the power supply system of stacked semiconductor chips.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method, a system and a program for dynamically reconstructing a pipeline type processor so as to operate by reduced power consumption without reducing existing performance. SOLUTION: When an individual unit or stage in a processor executes a given workload, by monitoring or detecting these performances, the respective stages uses a high performance circuit up to time when reduction is detected in throughput performance, and at that time, the stages are reconstituted so as to use a low performance circuit to be adjusted to the reduced performance throughput requirements of using less power. A power loss is optimized by constituting so as to retreat the processor to low performance design from high performance design to be adjusted to guarantee of a detected performance characteristic of an execution workload. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a directory-based coherency method, system and program for giving a requested cache line from a plurality of candidate memory sources in a multiprocessor system based on a sensed temperature value or power consumption value at each memory source. SOLUTION: By providing a temperature or power consumption sensor in each of the memory sources (e.g., in a core, cache memory, memory controller, etc.) that share a requested cache line, a control logical unit uses a signal from the temperature or power consumption sensors to determine which memory source should give the requested cache line by giving the signal which directs to provide the cache line to a requester, only to the memory source which involves allowed power consumption. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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Bei einem Kondensator (180) in einem Halbleitersubstrat (10) wird eine leitfähige Durchkontaktierung durch das Substrat (Through-Substrate Via, TSV) (80) als eine innere Elektrode und eine säulenförmige dotierte Halbleiterzone als eine äußere Elektrode verwendet. Der Kondensator (80) stellt eine große Entkopplungskapazität auf einer kleinen Fläche bereit und beeinflusst nicht die Schaltungsdichte oder einen 3DSi-Strukturentwurf. In dem Halbleitersubstrat (10) können weitere leitfähige TSVs bereitgestellt sein, um für eine elektrische Verbindung für Stromversorgungen und eine Signalübertragung durch dieses hindurch zu sorgen. Der Kondensator (180) weist eine niedrigere Induktivität als ein herkömmliches Kondensatorfeld mit vergleichbarer Kapazität auf, wodurch in dem Stromversorgungssystem gestapelter Halbleiterchips eine Verringerung des Hochfrequenzrauschens ermöglicht wird.
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An apparatus and method are provided for forming a fluorine doped borophosphosilicate (F-BPSG) glass on a semiconductor device using a low pressure chemical vapor deposition process. The F-BPSG glass exhibits a substantially void-free and particle-free layer on the substrate for structures having gaps as narrow as 0.10 microns and with aspect ratios of 6:1. The reactant gases include sources of boron and phosphorous dopants, oxygen and a mixture of TEOS and FTES. Using a mixture of TEOS and FTES in a low pressure CVD process provides a F-BPSG layer having the above enhanced characteristics. Preferably the glass deposition is performed at a temperature of about 750-850 DEG C and a pressure of 1 to 3 torr to provide for in situ reflow of the F-BPSG during the deposition process. An anneal is also preferred under similar conditions in the same chemical vapor deposition chamber to further planarize the F-BPSG surface.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method are provided for forming a fluorine doped borophosphosilicate (F-BPSG) glass on a semiconductor device using a low pressure chemical vapor deposition process. The F-BPSG glass exhibits a substantially void-free and particle-free layer on the substrate for structures having gaps as narrow as 0.10 microns and with aspect ratios of 6:1. The reactant gases include sources of boron and phosphorous dopants, oxygen and a mixture of TEOS and FTES. Using a mixture of TEOS and FTES in a low pressure CVD process provides a F-BPSG layer having the above enhanced characteristics. Preferably the glass deposition is performed at a temperature of about 750-850 DEG C and a pressure of 1 to 3 torr to provide for in situ reflow of the F-BPSG during the deposition process. An anneal is also preferred under similar conditions in the same chemical vapor deposition chamber to further planarize the F-BPSG surface.
Abstract:
A capacitor (180) in a semiconductor substrate (10) employs a conductive through-substrate via (TSV) (80) as an inner electrode and a columnar doped semiconductor region as an outer electrode. The capacitor (80) provides a large decoupling capacitance in a small area, and does not impact circuit density or a Si3D structural design. Additional conductive TSVs can be provided in the semiconductor substrate (10) to provide electrical connection for power supplies and signal transmission therethrough. The capacitor (180) has a lower inductance than a conventional array of capacitors having comparable capacitance, thereby enabling reduction of high frequency noise in the power supply system of stacked semiconductor chips.