Abstract

With the introduction of 0.18 micron CMOS process technology a new phenomenon in circuit manufacturing can be observed: design-rule values as specified in the design-rule manual are no longer “hard” numbers. Where designers and EDA tool manufacturers used to consider rule-values as strict limits when creating mask layouts, rule values have turned into gray areas around the specified rule values. This concept is illustrated in the following figure:

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