Expert System For Test Structure Data Interpretation

The system described here first obtains, using control charts, a qualitative summary of the non-normal data in the test structure measurements, and then finds diagnoses of the process problems, using a qualitative causal knowledge model. In this paper the main concepts behind the system are summarised and results obtained with a prototype for an NMOS process are discussed.

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