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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 1995
Filed:
Jun. 18, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Peter P Meng, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364578 ; 364488 ; 427-9 ;
Abstract
An improved method for simulating the surface contours of a layer of material to be formed over a base structure using a string algorithm is described. The method of the string algorithm includes the steps of defining old surface points along the base structure, defining a set of possible new surface points, and defining a set of orderly array of points, from the set of new surface points, which define the surface contours of the simulated layer of material formed over the base structure.