EMOGen: Enhancing Mask Optimization via Pattern Generation

Su Zheng, Yuzhe Ma, Bei Yu, Martin D.F. Wong

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Abstract

Layout pattern generation via deep generative models is a promising methodology for building practical large-scale pattern libraries. However, although improving optical proximity correction (OPC) is a major target of existing pattern generation methods, they are not explicitly trained for OPC and integrated into OPC methods. In this paper, we propose EMOGen to enable the co-evolution of layout pattern generation and learning-based OPC methods. With the novel co-evolution methodology, we achieve up to 39% enhancement in OPC and 34% improvement in pattern legalization.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 61st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, DAC 2024
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9798400706011
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Nov 2024
Event61st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, DAC 2024 - San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
Duration: 23 Jun 202427 Jun 2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3649329 (Conference proceedings)
https://www.dac.com/

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery

Conference

Conference61st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, DAC 2024
Abbreviated titleDAC 2024
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period23/06/2427/06/24
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