Timing-aware fill insertions with design-rule and density constraints

X Bai, Z Zhu, P Li, J Chen, T Lan, X Li… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Metal fill insertion has become an essential step in reducing dielectric thickness variation
and improving pattern uniformity, which is important in mitigating process variations, thereby …

A novel and unified full-chip CMP model aware dummy fill insertion framework with SQP-based optimization method

J Cai, C Yan, Y Tao, Y Lin, SG Wang… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dummy filling is widely applied to significantly improve the planarity of topographic patterns
for the chemical mechanical polishing process in VLSI manufactures. The main challenge of …

NeurFill: Migrating full-chip CMP simulators to neural networks for model-based dummy filling synthesis

J Cai, C Yan, Y Ma, B Yu, D Zhou… - 2021 58th ACM/IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dummy filling is widely applied to significantly improve the planarity of topographic patterns
for the chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process in VLSI manufacturing. This paper …

pNeurFill: Enhanced Neural Network Model-Based Dummy Filling Synthesis With Perimeter Adjustment

Z Chen, J Cai, C Yan, Z Bi, Y Ma, B Yu… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dummy filling is widely applied to significantly improve the planarity of topographic patterns
for the chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process in VLSI manufacturing. In the dummy …

GAN-dummy fill: timing-aware dummy fill method using GAN

M Kong, D Kim, M Kweon, S Kang - … of the Great Lakes Symposium on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) dummy fill method is commonly used for the
planarization of the CMP process, resulting in the development of many automated methods …

Towards Automated End-to-End VLSI Design for Manufacturability Solutions

B Jiang - 2021 - search.proquest.com
Pushing the integrated circuit (IC) technology node to extreme brings in daunting challenges
for the semiconductor manufacturing. The IC fabrication involves a series of physical and …