Machine learning based lithographic hotspot detection with critical-feature extraction and classification

In this paper, we present a fast and accurate lithographic hotspot detection flow with a novel MLK (Machine Learning Kernel), based on critical feature extraction and classification. In our flow, layout binary image patterns are decomposed/analyzed and critical lithographic hotspot related features are defined and employed for low noise MLK supervised training. Combining novel critical feature extraction and MLK supervised training procedure, our proposed hotspot detection flow achieves over 90% detection accuracy on average and much smaller false alarms (10% of actual hotspots) compared with some previous work [9, 13], without CPU time overhead.

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