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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 07, 1998
Koji Hashimoto, Yokohama, JP;
Hisako Aoyama, Yokohama, JP;
Soichi Inoue, Yokohama, JP;
Kazuko Yamamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Sachiko Kobayashi, Ichikawa, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
This invention is provided to eliminate the optical proximity effect which will occur because of different rates of dimensional change between before and after etching when a plurality of gate materials are etched in a single device. After a to-be-corrected region is extracted, an n.sup.+ -type polysilicon gate layer is extracted. Then, the distance is calculated from the n.sup.+ -type polysilicon gate layer to a pattern adjacent thereto which can be a p.sup.+ -type polysilicon gate layer, thereby correcting the size of the n.sup.+ -type polysilicon gate layer with reference to a correction table for the pattern adjacent to the n.sup.+ -type polysilicon gate layer. After that, a p.sup.+ -type polysilicon gate layer is extracted. Then, the distance is calculated from the p.sup.+ -type polysilicon gate layer to a pattern adjacent thereto which can be an n.sup.+ -type polysilicon gate layer, thereby correcting the size of the p.sup.+ -type polysilicon gate layer with reference to a correction table for the pattern adjacent to the p.sup.+ -type polysilicon gate layer.