摘要 |
A method and apparatus for providing correction for microloading effects is described. Hybrid proximity correction techniques are used to make the problem computationally more feasible. More specifically, feature edges in a layout can be grouped into those edges, or edge segments, with a large edge separation (group B), e.g. greater than n, and those having less than that separation (group A). The group B features can then be corrected for microloading effects rapidly using rules based correction. Then both groups of edges can be corrected using model based optical proximity correction using the output of the rule based correction as the ideal, or reference, layout.
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