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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2020
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Tsmc Nanjing Company Limited, Nanjing, CN;
Yi-Lin Chuang, Taipei, TW;
Song Liu, Nanjing, TW;
Pei-Pei Chen, Nanjing, TW;
Heng-Yi Lin, Taichung, TW;
Shih-Yao Lin, Hsinchu, TW;
Chin-Hsien Wang, Hsinchu, TW;
TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD., Hsinchu, TW;
TSMC NANJING COMPANY LIMITED, Nanjing, CN;
Abstract
A method includes the following operations: receiving design rule violations of a first layout; classifying, according to first chip features of the first layout, a first violation of the design rule violations into a first class of predefined classes; generating a first vector array for at least one of the first chip features of the first layout, that is associated with the first violation; selecting, according to the first vector array, first operations from pre-stored operations; generating a second layout based on the first layout and the first operations.