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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals

A Method of Precise Estimation of Physical Parameters in LSI Interconnect Structures

Toshiki KANAMOTO, Tetsuya WATANABE, Mitsutoshi SHIROTA, Masayuki TERAI, Tatsuya KUNIKIYO, Kiyoshi ISHIKAWA, Yoshihide AJIOKA, Yasutaka HORIBA

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This paper proposes a new non-destructive methodology to estimate physical parameters for LSIs. In order to resolve the estimation accuracy degradation issue for low-k dielectric films, we employ a parallel-plate capacitance measurement and a wire resistance measurement in our non-destructive method. Due to (1) the response surface functions corresponding to the parallel-plate capacitance measurement and the wire resistance measurement and (2) the searching of the physical parameter values using our cost function and simulated annealing, the proposed method attains higher precision than that of the existing method. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method by application to our 90 nm SoC process using low-k materials.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E88-A No.12 pp.3463-3470
Publication Date
2005/12/01
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DOI
10.1093/ietfec/e88-a.12.3463
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms)
Category
Interconnect

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