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SEMulator3D

PRODUCTS

SEMulator3D® is a semiconductor process modeling platform that offers wide ranging technology development capabilities. Based on highly efficient physics-driven voxel modeling technology, SEMulator3D has a unique ability to model complete process flows. Starting from input design data, SEMulator3D follows an integrated process flow description to create the virtual equivalent of the complex, 3D structures created in the fab.SEMulator3D process modeling and analysis is used for fast and accurate “virtual fabrication” of advanced nano-fabrication processes, allowing engineers to understand manufacturing effects early in the development process and reduce time-consuming and costly silicon learning cycles.

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Industry Challenges

Continued semiconductor technology advancement into 3D processes, including Gate-All-Around FET, 3D Memory, BEOL and backside patterning, has significantly increased the complexity of process development. As a result, the traditional build-and-test approach to technology development has become excessively costly and time-consuming.

With state-of-the-art fabs requiring multi-billion dollar investments, and technology growing ever more complex, the time and cost of trial-and-error silicon engineering have become unacceptable. The concurrent penalty for missing a market window has become extreme. Predictive, 3D process modeling with Coventor’s semiconductor process modeling software is an alternative approach that can dramatically reduce silicon learning cycles, cut development costs, and reduce the risk of missing a market window. Unlike actual wafer runs, which take weeks to month, virtual fabrication takes minutes to hours to produce results.

Predictive 3D process modeling with Coventor’s SEMulator3D virtual fabrication platform reduces development cycle time and costs associated with traditional silicon experimental learning. SEMulator3D enables companies to bring new technologies to volume production sooner by leveraging virtual fabricated wafers for development.

Key Customer Benefits

  • Time – Hours and days to solution via simulation versus weeks and months with real silicon
  • Cost – Reduction in requirement for capital equipment, engineering & factory staff, wafers, masks, chemicals, consumables & facilities

Key Applications

Pathfinding

  • Process integration validation
  • Big Branch decisions
  • Process assumptions

Defect Analysis

  • 3D Failure Checks
  • Defect Kill Ratio
  • R/C, Leakage, Device, IV, CV, etc.

Yield: Ramp and HVM

  • Design Process Optimization
  • Process Window Optimization
  • Cross-Wafer Uniformity


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