System Description

System Components

  1. An installed ChipInsight system will include:  Hardware/Server, Image stitching, design alignment, contour extraction, difference analysis, data export, project manager, viewer
  2. Not included: CD-SEM, Automated Image Acquisition, Image Streaming

Inputs

Input data depends on the type of the project. For a single layer project the required inputs are:
  1. An array of CD-SEM images taken side by side, with 10-15% overlap
  2. A "Properties.csv" project file (copy will be provided on request) with meta data and nm-scale coordinates of CD-SEM images
  3. A design clip/file "design.gds" that completely covers the same area where the CD-SEM image array was taken

Outputs

Outputs depend on the type of project. For a single layer project the outputs will be GDSII files for the following:
  • Contours (contours.gds)
  • Design+Contours (design_contours.gds)
  • Differences (difference.gds)
  • Design+Contours+Differences GDSII file (design_diff_cont.gds)
  • Plus an additional Differences.csv file in Excel