Method for compensation of the shortening of line ends during the formation of lines on a wafer

摘要

In order to compensate for the shortening of line ends ( 30 ) in a circuit design of an integrated circuit, in a first step, hammerheads or serifs ( 50 ) are attached to the line ends ( 30 ) by means of rule-based OPC corrections. The line ends modified in this way are revised further by downstream application of a simulation-based OPC correction before mask or direct wafer writer data are calculated. As a result of the formation of the pattern revised by the simulation-based correction on the wafer, there actually arises in an approximate manner owing to the proximity effects the layout created by the rule-based correction with the supplemented line ends ( 30 ) on the wafer.