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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:
Oct. 10, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2001
Applicants:
Christopher A. Bode, Austin, TX (US);
Joyce S. Oey Hewett, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Christopher A. Bode, Austin, TX (US);
Joyce S. Oey Hewett, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 19/00 (2006.01); G06F 7/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides for a method and an apparatus for performing field-to-field compensation during semiconductor manufacturing. At least one semiconductor device is processed. Metrology data is collected from the processed semiconductor device. A field-to-field metrology analysis is performed based upon the metrology data. Residual-error analysis is performed based upon the field-to-field analysis.