Patent ID: 7716009

Claim:
A computer program product comprising: a computer usable medium having computer readable program codes embodied in said medium for preparing recipes for operating a metrology tool used to measure desired dimensions in microelectronic features, each recipe comprising a set of instructions for measuring at least one dimension in a microelectronic feature, the computer program product utilizing a database having a plurality of known instructions for measuring different dimensions in a microelectronic feature, said computer program product having: computer readable program codes for comparing the instructions in the database with instructions in a desired recipe or portion thereof for measuring one or more desired dimensions in a microelectronic feature; computer readable program codes for identifying differences between the instructions in the desired recipe and the instructions in the database; computer readable program codes for modifying the instructions in the desired recipe to conform to the instructions in the database; and computer readable program codes for releasing the modified desired recipe for use by the metrology tool to execute a microelectronic feature measurement.