| 摘要 |
A drawing apparatus for drawing a pattern on a substrate with a plurality of charged-particle beams, includes a blanking aperture array including a plurality of apertures, a blanking unit including a plurality of blankers and configured to respectively deflect the plurality of charged-particle beams by the plurality of blankers to cause the blanking aperture array to block the respectively deflected plurality of charged-particle beams, a generating circuit configured to generate a blanking instruction in a serial format, and a serial transmission cable configured to transmit the blanking instruction generated by the generating circuit to the blanking unit, wherein the blanking unit is configured to convert the blanking instruction in the serial format, that has been received via the serial transmission cable, into a blanking instruction in a parallel format, and to drive the plurality of blankers based on the blanking instruction in the parallel format. |
