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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2004
Sergei Rodin, Moscow, RU;
Stanislav V. Aleshin, Moscow, RU;
Ilya Golubtsov, Moscow, RU;
LSI Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system is provided for automatically recognizing geometric points of features in a target design for OPC mask quality calculation. For each feature in the target design, x, y points comprising the feature are traversed and each neighboring pair of points is connected to define respective segments, wherein a set of contiguous segments form a step if the x values of the segments/points all increase or decrease and the same is true for the y values. Physical characteristics of the segments of the respective features are determined by comparing lengths of the segments to one another and to threshold values. Locations of quality measuring points are then determined along particular ones of the segments based on the physical characteristics.