Session 2B

San Juan Room

1:00pm - 3:05pm

DFM and Physical Layout

Chairs:    Enrico Malavasi, PDF Solutions

Kris Verma, Silicon Valley Technical Institute

1:00pm

Introduction

1:05pm

2B.1       

A Min-Variance Iterative Method for Fast Smart Dummy Feature Density Assignment in Chemical-Mechanical Polishing

Xin Wang, Charles Chiang, Jamil Kawa, Qing Su, Synopsys Inc.

1:35pm

2B.2       

Standard Cell Printability Grading and Hot Spot Detection

Michel Cote Philippe Hurat, Synopsys Inc.

2.05pm

2B.3       

Performance Driven OPC for Mask Cost Reduction

Puneet Gupta*, Andrew B. Kahng*, Dennis Sylvester**, Jie Yang**, *University of California at San Diego, **University of Michigan

2.35pm

2B.4       

Meeting Nanometer DPM Requirements through DFT

Jay Jahangiri, David Abercrombie, Mentor Graphics