Development of new stream format with GDSII upper compatibility and high compression rate

Koki Kuriyama; Junji Hirumi; Nobuyuki Yoshioka; Yutaka Hojo; Yuichi Kawase; Shigehiro Hara; Morihisa Hoga; Satoshi W. Watanabe; Masaru Inoue; Hidemuchi Kawase; Tomoko Kamimoto

doi:10.1117/12.467910

27 December 2002 Development of New Stream Format with GDSII Upper Compatibility and High-Compression Rate

Koki Kuriyama, Junji Hirumi, Nobuyuki Yoshioka, Yutaka Hojo, Yuichi Kawase, Shigehiro Hara, Morihisa Hoga, Satoshi W. Watanabe, Masaru Inoue, Hidemuchi Kawase, Tomoko Kamimoto

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Proceedings Volume 4889, 22nd Annual BACUS Symposium on Photomask Technology; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.467910
Event: Photomask Technology 2002, 2002, Monterey, CA, United States

Abstract

Mask data preparation (MDP) systems are becoming more and more complicated due to increasing demand for higher resolution, and more commonly adopted technique of optical proximity correction (OPC). Conventionally, as a standard format to describe mask patterns, GDSII has been widely used in the EDA field as well as in the mask production field. These days, however, GDSII is revealing its disadvantage in terms of efficiency in data compaction. On the other hand, mask pattern data in a variety of formats, including GDSII, are flowing into mask manufacturers, and this is making their process extremely complicated. In this paper, we propose a unified format, tentatively named "GDSII-NEO." GDSII-NEO is designed to retain GDSII upper compatibility in consideration of the utilization of existing GDSII data and to have several times higher compression rate than GDSII. GDSII-NEO can be seen as a multi-purpose format used widely in the EDA and mask field. An intended use, among others, of this format is to describe the pattern data fed into Electron Beam (EB) mask writers.

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Koki Kuriyama, Junji Hirumi, Nobuyuki Yoshioka, Yutaka Hojo, Yuichi Kawase, Shigehiro Hara, Morihisa Hoga, Satoshi W. Watanabe, Masaru Inoue, Hidemuchi Kawase, and Tomoko Kamimoto "Development of New Stream Format with GDSII Upper Compatibility and High-Compression Rate", Proc. SPIE 4889, 22nd Annual BACUS Symposium on Photomask Technology, (27 December 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.467910

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