CN103116663A - Method for filling redundant metal and method for establishing redundant metal filling mode lookup table - Google Patents
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The invention relates to the technical field of electronic design automation and semiconductor process manufacturing, in particular to a method for filling redundant metal. The method comprises the steps of firstly, conducting geometric parameter representation on a plurality of interconnection structures, filling redundant metal, conducting flatness simulation and capacitance extraction after filling to establish a filling lookup table of a redundant metal filling mode, then conducting structural unit division on a circuit layout and extracting geometric parameters of structural units, inquiring the filling lookup table according to the geometric parameters of the structural units, and obtaining the redundant metal filling mode of the structural units. The invention also provides a method for establishing the redundant metal filling mode lookup table. The invention not only satisfies the flatness requirement and the capacitance requirement, but also concentrates the workload in the process of establishing the filling lookup table, thereby reducing the workload when filling the redundant metal in the real design and accelerating the development speed.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to electric design automation and semiconductor technology manufacturing technology field, be specifically related to a kind of method and redundancy metal fill pattern look-up table method for building up of filling redundancy metal.
Background technology
At integrated circuit (Integrated Circuit, IC) in manufacture process, usually adopt to comprise that the various deposition process of physical vapour deposition (PVD), chemical vapor deposition are deposited to metal, dielectric and other materials on the surface of silicon chip, to form the metal construction of layering.Circuit generally includes multi-layer metal structure, is connected by a plurality of metal filled through holes again between every one deck metal.Therefore, in manufacture process, the step of a key is to form the metal construction that connects between each layer with circuit, makes circuit have very high complicacy and current densities.
In order to obtain to make the necessary flatness of multilayer circuit, usually use chemically mechanical polishing (ChemicalMechanical Polishing, CMP) technique to make the planarization of metallic dielectric layer pattern.CMP technique is that the abrasive action of a kind of chemical corrosion effect by polishing fluid and ultramicron forms the grinding technics of bright and clean flat surfaces on polished dielectric surface, is acknowledged as present VLSI (very large scale integrated circuit) stage best material overall situation flattening method.
But be reduced to below 90nm when the circuit technology node, especially arrive 65nm and 45nm when following, CMP process surface thickness afterwards highlights the Dependence Problem of underlying metal pattern, because the variation in thickness that metal pattern difference produces can be greater than 30%.Also bring simultaneously two major issues: metal dish and oxide layer corrode.These two problems are also closely related with domain graphic feature such as metal live width and distance between centers of tracks.
Redundancy metal is filled a process as the domain post-processed, can be used for reducing the CMP flatness problem that causes due to pattern dependency.Before the CMP process, the redundancy metal filling material is filled out on wafer, thereby made the thickness after IC chip design CMP more consistent.And the problem that the redundancy metal filling brings is, owing to having added unnecessary metal between metal interconnecting wires, make line capacitance increase, and the increase of line capacitance can affect signal integrity (the Signal Integrity of circuit, and then cause the capability error of circuit SI).
Can affect the performance of circuit due to the increase of line capacitance after filling at redundancy metal, therefore need to guarantee the increase of line capacitance within the acceptable range in the redundancy metal filling process, so just must consider simultaneously that the flatness of redundancy metal filling requires and the electric capacity requirement.Satisfy simultaneously flatness requirement and electric capacity requirement in order to make redundancy metal fill, can carry out flatness information and capacitance information after flatness simulation and electric capacity extract the acquisition filling, if do not meet the demands, the redundancy metal fill pattern is improved.Extract to guarantee that the redundancy metal filling of carrying out meets a large amount of time of corresponding requirements needs but repeatedly carry out flatness simulation and electric capacity in design process, can affect the launch progress like this.
Summary of the invention
The object of the present invention is to provide a kind of method of filling redundancy metal, can either satisfy chip flatness and capacitance characteristic, can implement again redundancy metal within a short period of time and fill.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a kind of redundancy metal fill pattern look-up table method for building up.
In order to achieve the above object, the technical solution used in the present invention is:
A kind of method of filling redundancy metal comprises the steps:
(1) circuit layout is divided into one or more structural units;
(2) extract the geometric parameter of described structural unit;
(3) inquire about according to the geometric parameter of the described structural unit that extracts the geometric parameter filling look-up table corresponding with the redundancy metal fill pattern of having set up, obtain the redundancy metal fill pattern of described structural unit.
In such scheme, the geometric parameter of the described structural unit of described extraction comprises that interconnection line live width, interconnection line spacing and interconnection line in the structural unit that extracts described circuit layout is over against length.
In such scheme, described step (3) specifically comprises: if having the geometric parameter consistent with the geometric parameter of described structural unit in described filling look-up table, with the fill pattern of the fill pattern under the index of described consistent geometric parameter as described structural unit; If there is no the geometric parameter consistent with the geometric parameter of described structural unit in described filling look-up table, calculate the deviate of geometric parameter in the geometric parameter of described structural unit and described filling look-up table, with in described filling look-up table with the geometric parameter index of the geometric parameter deviate minimum of described structural unit under fill pattern as the fill pattern of described structural unit.
In such scheme, described redundancy metal fill pattern comprises with ranks or dislocation form fills redundancy metal to form the redundancy metal piece of geometric configuration.
A kind of method for building up of redundancy metal fill pattern look-up table comprises the steps:
A. after adopting respectively a plurality of geometric parameters to characterize to a plurality of interconnection structures, adopt respectively multiple redundancy metal fill pattern to fill;
B. every kind of redundancy metal fill pattern of each described interconnection structure is carried out flatness simulation and electric capacity extraction;
C. the fill pattern and the corresponding geometric parameter that all meet the demands according to flatness and electric capacity are set up the corresponding look-up table of filling.
In such scheme, described interconnection structure is two or many parallel metal line structures.
In such scheme, the geometric parameter in described steps A comprises that interconnection line live width, interconnection line spacing and interconnection line in described interconnection structure is over against length.
In such scheme, described step C specifically comprises: with the index of described geometric parameter as described filling look-up table, will with the corresponding fill pattern of described geometric parameter as search content, set up described index and search content and fill accordingly look-up table.
In such scheme, the interconnection line number of described structural unit equates with the interconnection line number of described interconnection structure.
Compare with the prior art scheme, the beneficial effect that the technical solution used in the present invention produces is as follows:
The present invention is by setting up the method for redundancy metal fill pattern look-up table, thereby realizes rapidly the redundancy metal of interconnection structure domain is filled.Adopt the present invention to carry out the redundancy metal filling and not only satisfied simultaneously flatness requirement and electric capacity requirement, but also being concentrated on to set up, workload fills in the look-up table process, thereby the workload when having reduced to carry out the redundancy metal filling in true design is with Speeding up development speed.
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The process flow diagram of the method for the filling redundancy metal that Fig. 1 provides for the embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 2 is the schematic diagram of interconnection structure in the embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 3-5 are the schematic diagram of three kinds of redundancy metal fill patterns in the embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 6 is the schematic diagram of circuit layout in the embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 7 carries out to circuit layout the schematic diagram that structural unit is divided in the embodiment of the present invention.
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As shown in Figure 1, fill look-up table by foundation and realize interconnection structure in circuit layout is carried out the metal filled method of fast-speed redundancy thereby the embodiment of the present invention provides a kind of, the method realizes by following steps:
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w1,w2,s1,l | 0.3,0.5,0.4,0.3 | 0.6,0.4,0.5,0.4 | 0.8,0.3,0.7,0.3 |
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w1,w2,s1,l | 0.3,0.5,0.4,0.3 | 0.6,0.4,0.5,0.4 | 0.8,0.3,0.7,0.3 | |
| Pattern | 1 | Pattern 2 | Mode 3 |
Wherein, fill look-up table comprise with geometric parameter (in the embodiment of the present invention, live width w1, w2 that step 110 is cited, distance s 1 and over against length l) as the index of look-up table, with the fill pattern that obtains as searching content.Be pointed out that, index is not limited to table 2 example, and the corresponding fill pattern of each index also can have a plurality of and be not limited to shown in table 2.In addition, for different fill patterns, only distinguished with pattern 1, pattern 2 etc. in table 2 example illustrated, can different fill patterns be numbered in practice, and be not limited only to the mode of differentiation shown in table 2.The present invention concentrates on workload to set up and fills in the look-up table process (step 110-step 140), thus the calculated amount when reducing circuit layout is carried out the redundancy metal filling, with Speeding up development speed.
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w1,w2,s1,l | 0.3,0.5,0.4,0.3 | 0.7,0.4,0.6,0.4 | 0.6,0.4,0.9,0.2 |
In embodiments of the present invention, one of them structural unit of choosing Fig. 7 extracts geometric parameter, the geometric parameter that extracts is live width w1, the w2 of two parallel metal lines in this structural unit, distance s 1 between every described metal wire metal wire in parallel, and wherein a wires with respect to its parallel metal lines over against length l, each parameter does not mark in Fig. 7, can be with reference to mark shown in Figure 2.
Table 4 fills for inquiry the example that look-up table obtains the fill pattern of structural unit, wherein, the first row of data rows (be that geometric parameter is respectively " 0.3; 0.5; 0.4; 0.3 ", fill pattern is " pattern one ") is the example of situation one, and rear two row of data rows are the example of situation two.
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w1,w2,s1,l | 0.3,0.5,0.4,0.3 | 0.7,0.4,0.6,0.4 | 0.6,0.4,0.9,0.2 | |
| Pattern | 1 | Pattern 2 | Mode 3 |
By above step, can obtain the fill pattern of arbitrary structural unit in the circuit layout of interconnection structure.
The interconnection structure in circuit layout is carried out fast-speed redundancy metal filled before, set up in advance and fill look-up table, carrying out fast-speed redundancy when metal filled, need not to set up again the filling look-up table at every turn, can directly carry out structure to circuit layout divides, to form one or more structural units, then structural unit is extracted real geometric parameter, according to the geometric parameter filling look-up table corresponding with the redundancy metal fill pattern that the geometric parameter inquiry of the structural unit that extracts has been set up, obtain the redundancy metal fill pattern of structural unit.The present invention is by setting up the method for redundancy metal fill pattern look-up table, thereby realizes rapidly the redundancy metal of interconnection structure domain is filled.The invention has the advantages that: on the one hand, considered flatness that redundancy metal is filled and electrical characteristics this two aspects, the requirement of this two aspect has been satisfied in the filling of adopting the present invention to carry out simultaneously; On the other hand, workload is concentrated on to set up fill in the look-up table process, thus the workload when having reduced to carry out the redundancy metal filling in true design, with Speeding up development speed.By the method that redundancy metal provided by the invention is filled, can either guarantee to fill the chip after the redundancy metal and meet that flatness requires and the electric capacity constraint, can guarantee again time that filling process needs and workload within the acceptable range.
The above is only the preferred embodiments of the present invention, is not limited to the present invention, and to those skilled in the art, the present invention can have various modifications and variations.Within the spirit and principles in the present invention all, any modification of doing, be equal to replacement, improvement etc., within all should being included in protection scope of the present invention.
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1. a method of filling redundancy metal, is characterized in that, comprises the steps:
(1) circuit layout is divided into one or more structural units;
(2) extract the geometric parameter of described structural unit;
(3) inquire about according to the geometric parameter of the described structural unit that extracts the geometric parameter filling look-up table corresponding with the redundancy metal fill pattern of having set up, obtain the redundancy metal fill pattern of described structural unit.
2. the method for filling redundancy metal as claimed in claim 1, is characterized in that, the geometric parameter of the described structural unit of described extraction comprises that interconnection line live width, interconnection line spacing and interconnection line in the structural unit that extracts described circuit layout is over against length.
3. the method for filling redundancy metal as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that, described step (3) specifically comprises: if having the geometric parameter consistent with the geometric parameter of described structural unit in described filling look-up table, with the fill pattern of the fill pattern under the index of described consistent geometric parameter as described structural unit; If there is no the geometric parameter consistent with the geometric parameter of described structural unit in described filling look-up table, calculate the deviate of geometric parameter in the geometric parameter of described structural unit and described filling look-up table, with in described filling look-up table with the geometric parameter index of the geometric parameter deviate minimum of described structural unit under fill pattern as the fill pattern of described structural unit.
4. the method for filling redundancy metal as claimed in claim 1, is characterized in that, described redundancy metal fill pattern comprises with ranks or dislocation form fills redundancy metal to form the redundancy metal piece of geometric configuration.
5. the method for building up of a redundancy metal fill pattern look-up table, comprise the steps:
A. after adopting respectively a plurality of geometric parameters to characterize to a plurality of interconnection structures, adopt respectively multiple redundancy metal fill pattern to fill;
B. every kind of redundancy metal fill pattern of each described interconnection structure is carried out flatness simulation and electric capacity extraction;
C. the fill pattern and the corresponding geometric parameter that all meet the demands according to flatness and electric capacity are set up the corresponding look-up table of filling.
6. the method for building up of redundancy metal fill pattern look-up table as claimed in claim 5, is characterized in that, described interconnection structure is two or many parallel metal line structures.
7. the method for building up of redundancy metal fill pattern look-up table as claimed in claim 5, is characterized in that, the geometric parameter in described steps A comprises that interconnection line live width, interconnection line spacing and interconnection line in described interconnection structure is over against length.
8. the method for building up of redundancy metal fill pattern look-up table as claimed in claim 5, it is characterized in that, described step C specifically comprises: with the index of described geometric parameter as described filling look-up table, to with the corresponding fill pattern of described geometric parameter as search content, set up described index and search content and fill accordingly look-up table.
9. the method for building up of redundancy metal fill pattern look-up table as claimed in claim 5, is characterized in that, the interconnection line number of described structural unit equates with the interconnection line number of described interconnection structure.
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