Patent ID: 9690891
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: G06F,Y02P

Claim:
1. A method for facilitating manufacturing of a semiconductor device, the method comprising: receiving a custom design data set, wherein the custom design data set complies with a first element-identification scheme; generating a compatible design data set using hardware circuits and the custom design data set, wherein some data elements in the compatible design data set correspond to some data elements in the custom design data set, and wherein the compatible design data set is compatible with a dummy-pattern-data generation module; generating a first dummy-pattern data set using the hardware circuits, the dummy-pattern-data generation module, and the compatible design data set; and generating a second dummy-pattern data set using the hardware circuits and the first dummy-pattern data set, wherein some data elements in the second dummy-pattern data set correspond to some data elements in the first dummy-pattern data set, and wherein the second dummy-pattern data set complies with the first element-identification scheme.