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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. 27, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd, Hsin Chu, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/900 ; G06F 1/760 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/900 ; G06F 1/760 ;
Abstract
Within a method for approximating a cycle time for fabricating a microelectronic fabrication within a microelectronic fabrication facility there is first determined from historic data for fabrication of the microelectronic fabrication within the microelectronic fabrication facility a constant which correlates previous microelectronic fabrication loadings and cycle times within the microelectronic fabrication facility. The correlating constant may then be employed for approximating a cycle time for a future work in process (WIP) quantity of the microelectronic fabrication within the microelectronic fabrication facility.