We propose practical iterated methods for layout density control for CMP uniformity, based on linear programming, Monte-Carlo and greedy algorithms. We experimentally study the tr...
Yu Chen, Andrew B. Kahng, Gabriel Robins, Alexande...
Chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) and other manufacturing steps in very deep submicron VLSI have varying effects on device and interconnect features, depending on local character...
Yu Chen, Andrew B. Kahng, Gabriel Robins, Alexande...
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...
Chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP) and other manufacturing steps in very deep-submicron VLSI have varying effects on device and interconnect features, depending on the local ...