Design-based metrology for development and manufacturing applications

This work presents how the combination of EDA and CDSEM tools enable development and manufacturing engineers to collect CDSEM data of a large diversity of features and contexts seamlessly for OPC model calibration and validation, process development, and inline manufacturing monitoring. We will present the application and results of a solution proposed in a previously published paper[1] and then review the benefits of enabling development and manufacturing engineers to make metrology-related decisions within their environments. Finally, new applications for automated CDSEM recipe generation and data collection will be discussed.