International Business Machines Corporation

Yuusheng Song

Viorel C Ontalus

Steven G Barbee

Jeong Woo Nam

An exemplary method for performing fabrication sequence analysis, the method comprising, defining a process group, wherein a process group includes fabrication processes in a fabrication sequence, determining fabrication process paths in the process group to define independent variables, wherein a process path is a plurality of fabrication equipment used to fabricate a particular semiconductor device in the fabrication sequence, receiving a dependent variable for the fabrication sequence, performing analysis of variance to calculate a p-value for the process group, determining whether the p-value is lower than a threshold value, identifying a poor process path responsive to determining that the p-value is lower than a threshold value, and outputting the identified poor process path.

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Yuusheng Song