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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2014
Applicant:
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Inventors:
Assignee:
TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD., Hsinchu, TW;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01); H01L 27/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 27/0259 (2013.01); G06F 17/5036 (2013.01); G06F 17/5081 (2013.01); G06F 17/5068 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of detecting a parasitic transistor detecting is provided. The method includes extracting several diodes from a selected area, selecting at least one diode pair from the diodes in accordance with signals connected to the diodes, and filtering the at least one diode pair in accordance with a threshold distance to determine whether at least one parasitic transistor is obtained.