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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:
Sep. 23, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Vivek K. Singh, Portland, OR (US);
John Ernst Bjorkholm, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Francisco A. Leon, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/750 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/750 ;
Abstract
A method including determining a first flare convolution based on a feature density of projected structures on a substrate layout, determining a second flare convolution based on a mask for a given substrate layout, determining a system flare variation by summing the first flare convolution and the second flare convolution, and determining a critical dimension variation based on the system flare variation.