WO2000036525A2 - Mechanisms for making and inspecting reticles - Google Patents
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- WO2000036525A2 WO2000036525A2 PCT/US1999/030240 US9930240W WO0036525A2 WO 2000036525 A2 WO2000036525 A2 WO 2000036525A2 US 9930240 W US9930240 W US 9930240W WO 0036525 A2 WO0036525 A2 WO 0036525A2
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- G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
- G03F—PHOTOMECHANICAL PRODUCTION OF TEXTURED OR PATTERNED SURFACES, e.g. FOR PRINTING, FOR PROCESSING OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; MATERIALS THEREFOR; ORIGINALS THEREFOR; APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED THEREFOR
- G03F1/00—Originals for photomechanical production of textured or patterned surfaces, e.g., masks, photo-masks, reticles; Mask blanks or pellicles therefor; Containers specially adapted therefor; Preparation thereof
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- the present invention relates generally to integrated circuit design and
- the invention relates to mechanisms for
- circuits become standard steps in the production of semiconductors. Initially, circuits
- circuit pattern data is
- the representational layout typically includes a representational
- IC device e.g., gate oxide, polysilicon,
- each representational layer is composed of a plurality of
- the reticle writer uses the circuit pattern data to write (e.g., typically, an
- electron beam writer or laser scanner is used to expose a reticle pattern) a plurality of
- a reticle that will later be used to fabricate the particular IC design.
- a reticle that will later be used to fabricate the particular IC design.
- inspection system may then inspect the reticle for defects that may have occurred
- a reticle or photomask is an optical element containing transparent and
- an optical reticle's features are between about 1 and about 5 times
- Optical reticles are typically made from a transparent medium such as a
- the reticle pattern may be created by a laser or
- each reticle After fabrication of each reticle or group of reticles, each reticle is typically
- optical image of the reticle is constructed based on the portion of the light reflected
- the optical image of the reticle is
- the baseline image is either generated from
- optical image features are analyzed and compared with corresponding features of the
- optical image feature varies from the baseline feature by more than the
- a defect is defined.
- critical features of an integrated circuit typically include gate
- reticle has defects in critical areas, as well as noncritical areas.
- the present invention addresses the above problems by providing
- the present invention provides a method for efficiently and reliably inspecting reticles.
- the flagged critical region contains a flag that is readable by an inspection
- circuit design is reusable.
- the special analysis is performed during a
- the circuit design includes (i) a base representation containing the entire layout pattern without denoting the flagged critical region and (ii) a shadow
- both the base and shadow representations are configured to
- An electronic representation is provided to a
- the electronic representation has a flagged critical region
- reticle requires a special production technique.
- flagged critical region of the electronic representation is produced via the special
- the reticle has a special analysis region
- the representation has a normal region of the pattern and a flagged critical region of
- a test reticle image of the reticle is provided.
- a baseline representation of the pattern is provided.
- test a reticle image containing an expected pattern of the test reticle image is also provided.
- reticle image is compared to the baseline representation such that (i) regions of the test reticle image and the baseline representation corresponding to the normal analysis
- region of the reticle are compared via a normal analysis and (ii) regions of the test
- the comparison further includes determining
- the special analysis region may include determining whether a normal parameter of the special analysis region is
- circuit design for use with electronic design
- EDA automation
- the layout pattern includes a flagged noncritical region which
- the flagged noncritical region contains
- the special inspection procedure includes using
- the present invention has several advantages. For example, the present invention has several advantages. For example, the present invention has several advantages. For example, the present invention has several advantages. For example, the present invention has several advantages. For example, the present invention has several advantages. For example, the present invention has several advantages. For example, the present invention has several advantages. For example, the present invention has several advantages. For example, the present invention has several advantages. For example, the present invention has several advantages. For example, the present invention has several advantages. For example, the present invention
- invention allows more than one type of inspection, an enhanced or special inspection
- the present invention may contribute to significant
- Figure 1 is a flowchart illustrating an integrated circuit design process in
- Figure 2 is a diagram of two electronic representations of layout patterns used
- Figure 3 is a diagram of a portion of a circuit pattern database having a base
- Figure 4 is a diagrammatic representation of a circuit pattern layout in
- Figure 5A through 5C are corresponding database structures that represent the
- Figure 6 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of Figure 1 of inspecting
- Figure 7 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of Figure 6 of comparing the
- test and baseline images in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
- Figure 8A is a diagram of a first example of an enhanced analysis and a
- Figures 8B and 8C are diagrams of a second and third example of an enhanced
- Figure 9 shows a reticle inspection station-reticle stocker station upon which
- Figure 1 is a flowchart illustrating an integrated circuit design process 100 in
- an integrated circuit (IC) device is designed using any suitable design techniques. For example, an integrated circuit (IC) device is designed using any suitable design techniques.
- an IC designer may use preexisting schematic library blocks to form the IC
- EDA electronic design automation
- the IC designer may create the IC device or part of the IC device from scratch with
- CAD CAD tools
- logic diagrams for a particular IC device may be written a description of the IC device or portions of the IC device with the aid of a hardware
- the circuit (commonly referred to as a "layout") from the IC design in operation 104.
- the circuit (commonly referred to as a "layout") from the IC design in operation 104.
- pattern database is composed of a plurality of electronic representations of layout
- fabricated IC device corresponds to one of the reticles and an associated one of the
- representation may correspond to a diffusion pattern on a silicon substrate, another to
- Each electronic representation is composed of a plurality of polygons or other shapes
- the circuit pattern database may be generated using any suitable technique,
- a synthesis tool may automatically create circuit patterns
- the circuit pattern database may include flagged portions of
- the flagged portions may also be used to inform a
- the circuit pattern database is generated.
- the reticles may be produced
- Each reticle corresponds to one or more electronic representation(s) from the
- a reticle is then inspected in operation 108, and it is
- the reticle may then be used to fabricate a physical layer of the IC
- Operations 106 through 112 are implemented for each electronic
- the present invention may be implemented on any suitable inspection tools.
- KLA 301 or 351 Reticle Inspection Tool commercially available from
- KLA-Tencor of San Jose, California may be employed.
- the flagged region(s) will later be used to indicate that corresponding regions.
- the flagged region(s) may be flagged by any suitable technique for
- electronic representation of a given layer may contain specific flags or tags on certain
- shadow representation The other layer type is sometimes referred to
- Both the shadow and base representation may be used to form the same
- representation may include multiple different shadow representations for flagging
- representation may flag regions to be inspected with a high stringency threshold level
- noncriticial regions may be flagged to indicate that the corresponding flagged regions are to be inspected with a low stringency threshold
- Figure 2 is a diagram of two electronic representations of layout patterns used
- transistor representation 250 in accordance with one embodiment of the present
- the transistor representation 250 includes (i) a poly layer
- a diffusion layer electronic representation 252 representing the layout of a diffusion
- the poly layer electronic representation 254 provides
- the pattern of the polysilicon layer including a gate area of the transistor 250.
- the diffusion layout pattern is indicated by a dotted boundary in electronic
- polysilicon layout pattern is indicated by a solid boundary in electronic representation
- a polysilicon strip 260 Residing within the solid boundary is a polysilicon strip 260. It contains a
- the critical region is defined by the intersection of active region 258 (from the
- representation 254 includes both a critical region 256 and a normal region including
- region 260 all of region 260 or at least the portions of 260 lying outside of critical region 256.
- the flagged region may be used to perform enhanced inspections and/or
- the flagged critical region may also be used to indicate that the
- corresponding critical region of the reticle may be subject to an enhanced inspection.
- the flagged critical region may be used to indicate the
- corresponding critical region of the reticle may be subject to enhanced reticle
- One way to flag the critical regions is to use one or more shadow
- Each shadow representation may flag one or more specific critical
- layer of a circuit design may include a base representation containing the entire
- representation is merely used to indicate a critical region of the reticle that requires an
- the base representation may be provided to
- the pattern generator or reticle writer so that reticles may be fabricated from the base
- the shadow may be inspected based on the shadow representation(s).
- the shadow may be inspected based on the shadow representation(s).
- representation(s) may also be used to fabricate the associated critical regions of the
- reticle (or possibly the IC device).
- More than one type of shadow representation may be used to indicate different parameters
- the shadow regions may be used to flag
- Figure 3 is a diagram of a portion of
- circuit pattern database 300 having a base representation 306 and a shadow
- representations 306 and 308 may denote a polysilicon
- the base representation may be used to
- the shadow representation may only be used to inspect the reticle or
- shadow representations may be used to fabricate the reticle.
- the critical elements the critical elements
- regions of the shadow representation specify a special fabrication procedure (e.g.,
- the shadow representation may be used alone or in conjunction
- the shadow region includes at least the critical regions).
- the shadow region may be used to
- the base representation 306 defines the pattern of a
- polysilicon strip 302 that includes a critical portion 304 that is flagged as region 310
- the shadow representation may
- the critical region may not need to be flagged in the base representation.
- the base and shadow representation may take any convenient form readable
- they take the form of files or other suitable machine readable data
- circuit pattern layout for a particular layer involves providing a modified base or
- Figure 4 is a diagrammatic representation of a
- circuit pattern layout 400, and Figure 5A through 5C are corresponding database
- a circuit pattern layout (such as that
- the database may include the entire set of layers that correspond to all
- the circuit pattern 400 includes a plurality of cell A's 410.
- Each cell A's 410 includes a plurality of cell A's 410.
- cell A 410 includes a plurality of figures. As mentioned above, figures may be
- cell 410a includes figures 402a. 404a, 406a. and 408a.
- Each layer and cell may have one or more figures. Together these figures may define the patterning of a polysilicon layer at a specific location on an integrated circuit.
- they may define the patterning of diffusions in a substrate, a
- the circuit pattern 400 also includes a plurality of cell B's
- the database structures may be organized in any suitable form. For example,
- the database structures may be in the form of a hierarchical list of figures and cells.
- the database 500 for a single layer (“layer #1”) of the circuit As shown in Figure 5 A, the database 500 for a single layer (“layer #1") of the circuit
- design includes a cell A definition 502, a cell B definition 504, and a listing of cells
- the cell A definition 502 includes four figures (figures 1 through 4). Each
- figure has a set of coordinates that denote the sizes and position of each figure within
- the cell B definition 504 includes two cell A's and their respective relative
- 506 includes a cell A that corresponds to the cell A 410a and three cell B's that
- Each figure is associated with a particular tag that indicates a type of
- each tag may indicate one of a plurality
- the tag is related to how stringently the associated figure is to be inspected.
- a tag may represent one of a plurality of threshold
- values such as a "1 " value which indicates a highest threshold, a "2" value which indicates a medium threshold, or a "3" which indicates a lowest threshold.
- a tag may simply indicate whether or not to
- the tag is
- a tag may indicate a
- the tag "gate" may indicate that an enhanced inspection for transistor
- the enhanced inspection for gates may include,
- the tag "contact" may be any suitable item for example, checking the average width or length of figure 1.
- the tag "contact” may be any suitable item for example, checking the average width or length of figure 1.
- the enhanced inspection procedure may be especially applicable to
- the special inspection procedure for contacts may be
- the above described tags may facilitate inspection of reticles, as well as the
- the flags may be used to select a particular fabricated IC device.
- the flags may be used to select a particular fabricated IC device.
- the flags may be used to select a particular fabricated IC device.
- tags may facilitate fabrication of such reticles and/or IC devices.
- the reticles and/or IC devices may facilitate fabrication of such reticles and/or IC devices.
- flagged regions may be used to indicate that special attention and care is to be given
- Figure 6 is a flowchart illustrating the operation 108 of Figure 1 of inspecting
- a baseline image of the reticle may be
- image may be generated in any suitable manner, such as by merely directly
- the circuit pattern database may be rendered by simulating fabrication results from
- corners of a circuit pattern in the baseline image may be rounded to account for corner
- a vendor may provide
- the end user of the reticle e.g. a fabrication facility, with the baseline image of the
- the baseline image may be generated from an adjacent die of the
- the reticle is
- test image For example, an optical or ebeam image be obtained.
- test image is compared to the baseline image. This comparison is based, in part, on
- the flagged regions indicate the type of inspection to be performed on the
- Figure 7 is a flowchart illustrating the operation 606 of Figure 6 of comparing
- a current region of the reticle is selected for analysis. It
- the enhanced analysis may include any suitable type of inspection procedure
- the enhanced analysis provides a way to inspect more stringently to
- edge of the critical region on the test image may be compared to an edge of the
- the enhanced analysis may include a qualitatively different analysis from the normal analysis. That is, a different
- inspection algorithm is used for the enhanced analysis than for the normal analysis.
- a normal analysis may be in the form of any inspection procedure that is
- the normal analysis may use a conventional threshold for
- the reticle features in the unflagged regions may be so unimportant that they are
- CMP markings may be one such type of
- Figure 8A is a diagram of a first example of an enhanced analysis and a
- a test feature 806 i.e., a feature under analysis is compared to a baseline
- the baseline feature corresponds to expected results, and the test feature
- test feature's edge positions are merely
- test feature must not vary from the baseline feature by more than a
- the normal analysis may result in a defect that is undetected. More
- the magnitudes of the edge position deviations are summed. In such cases,
- the feature may be flagged to indicate that a qualitatively different inspection is
- the feature may be flagged as a gate (see Figure 5C) or
- test feature may be flagged to indicate that the average width of the test feature must be within a
- gate width is far more critical than an offset in the overall positions of the lines or
- Figures 8B and 8C are diagrams of a second and third example of an enhanced
- a test feature 856 is compared to a baseline feature
- edge differences are
- test feature 860 has
- the edge differences might be
- the contact needs to be a
- the particular shape of a contact is not important, as long as the area
- the present invention allows the baseline feature to be
- the flag may indicate that the area of the feature under analysis is to be
- the present invention allows corresponding baseline
- the invention may be used with any suitable inspection or fabrication system.
- Figure 9 shows a reticle inspection station-reticle stocker station 900 where process
- An autoloader 208 for automatically transporting reticles includes a robot
- Arm 210 may rotate and can extend towards an external port 204 when
- the robotic arm can also extend towards a storage port 206 of
- a reticle stocker station 216 that typically includes several slots or tracks for storing
- the robotic arm is designed to further extend and retrieve a reticle 214 from
- reticle 214 may be placed on external port 204, with the
- Robotic arm in its position 210'
- robotic arm 210 retrieves reticle 214 from the loading port
- the inspection system 250 is coupled with a computer system 252 where
- the computer system 252 may be integral
- inspection system 250 to inspection system 250 or separate from the inspection system 250.
- system 250 receives data 254 regarding the designer's intent in the form of data
- the computer system 252 receives image data from the inspection
- the image data is analyzed based, at least in part, on the user's design
- the reticle 214 may be repaired or
- reticle comparing the new image with the baseline image, storing the location of defects, etc.
- reticle may be obtained from various vendors.
- comparing the new image with the baseline image may be obtained from various vendors.
- storing the location of defects, etc. may be obtained from various vendors.
- Sun SPARC Sun Microsystems, Sunnyvale, California
- the computer system preferably has one or more processors
- an optical, electron beam, or other inspection system is integrated with an optical, electron beam, or other inspection system.
- Such composite system preferably includes at least (a) a baseline image
- the imaging system will usually include (i) a source of
- illumination oriented to direct radiation onto a specified location of the reticle
- the imaging system may also include a
- regions may be flagged to indicate a less stringent or no inspection
- the regions may be flagged to
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