Patent ID: 8661370
Filing Date: 2014-02-25
Classification: G03F

Abstract:
1. A computer system having a processor operatively interconnected to a memory device, a graphical display device, a user input device, and a graphical user interface displayed in the graphical display device, allowing the computer system to implement the method of optimization of a manufacturing process of an integrated circuit or IC layout, the method comprising: receiving input; organizing IC patterns; selecting IC patterns amongst the organized IC patterns; and optimizing a design of a manufacturing process of the IC layout based on the selected IC patterns; wherein the steps of receiving input and organizing IC patterns are performed prior to selecting IC patterns and the step of organizing IC patterns includes a condition to be satisfied of the IC patterns and said IC patterns are organized in clusters of similar patterns such that at least one pattern is selected from each cluster; and the input upon which said clusters are organized comprises: