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The Power of Special Cause Variation: Learning from Process Changes

Special cause variation, I love to see it! That’s because I know I’m about to learn something important about my process. A ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Predicting And Preventing Process Drift

Increasingly tight tolerances and rigorous demands for quality are forcing chipmakers and equipment manufacturers to ferret out minor process variances, which can create significant anomalies in ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Impacts Of Process Flow, Scaling, And Variability On Interconnect Performance

Virtual fabrication is used to evaluate the performance of interconnects (line and via resistance, capacitance, etc.) across pitches compatible with either EUV single exposure or SADP for three ...
EDN

Matsushita Uses Mentor DFM Tools to Measure Process Variability

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. said it is using Mentor Graphics Corp.’s Calibre OPCverify design-for-manufacturing (DFM) software for use in production at 65nm and below to examine the impact ...
EDN

Modeling process variability in design flow

It is becoming more and more difficult in nanometer designs to reliably print the image intended by the designer. This task is demanding enough under normal conditions; maintaining pattern fidelity ...
Compliance Week

When stability fails: Why over-optimization creates organizational brittleness

Resilience is not the elimination of variability. Resilience is the capacity to adjust to variability when it occurs. When stability is pursued without regard for adaptability, failures do not ...