Brion Tachyon OPC+ Selected by Toshiba to Enable 45nm IC Production.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. -- Brion Technologies, an ASML ASML Abstract State Machine Language ASML Anisotropic Shielded Microstrip Line company, today announced that Toshiba Corp. has purchased and production qualified Brion's Tachyon tachyon (tăk`ēŏn'), hypothetical elementary particle that travels only at speeds exceeding that of light. According to the theory of relativity, the speed of light is the limiting velocity for all ordinary material particles. [TM] OPC (1) (OpenGL Performance Characterization) A project group within GPC that manages OpenGL benchmarks. OPC endorses the Viewperf and GLperf benchmarks. Viewperf was created by IBM and OPC provides viewsets for it, which are combinations of tests using specific + optical proximity correction Optical proximity correction (OPC) is a photolithography enhancement technique commonly used to compensate for image errors due to diffraction or process effects. The two most common applications for OPC are linewidth differences between features in regions of different density (e. (OPC) solution for part of their leading-edge integrated circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. . Toshiba, a Brion customer continues to expand its use of Brion's solutions to produce advanced devices. This latest purchase demonstrates the important role that Brion's computational lithography tools continue to play in Toshiba's production of advanced logic chips for use in a wide range of semiconductor applications. One of the unique differentiators of Tachyon OPC+ is process-window OPC, which ensures consistent, reliable yield-aware correction over a wide range of process conditions. Thanks to the unmatched efficiency of Brion's tightly integrated hardware and software platform, Tachyon OPC+ with process-window OPC improves yields with only minimal impact on run time. It not only enables highly accurate low k1 lithography but also provides significant cost of ownership benefits. "We are pleased to continue to support Toshiba's production of low k1 processes," said Noriaki Kikuchi, president, Japan operations, Brion Technologies KK. "Toshiba's decision to rely on Tachyon OPC+ for 45nm production demonstrates once again our leadership in computational lithography for advanced technology nodes." About k1 Lithographers use the "process factor" k1 to express the relative difficulty of a given lithography process. Improvements in lithography system capabilities, photoresist processes, and masks enable lithography at smaller k1 values, which in turn allows chipmakers to produce devices with increasingly smaller features, with minimal sacrifice of process latitude. About Brion Technologies Brion Technologies is an ASML company and industry leader in computational lithography for integrated circuits. Brion's Tachyon[TM] platform, an OPC and OPC verification system, enables capabilities that address chip design, photomask making and wafer printing for semiconductor manufacturing. Brion is headquartered in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. . For more information: www.brion.com or www.ASML.com. (c) 2008 Brion Technologies. All rights reserved. Brion Technologies, the Brion Technologies logo, and Tachyon are trademarks of Brion Technologies. |
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