Patent ID: 7473319

Claim:
A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, comprising: a substrate holding unit for holding a semiconductor wafer substrate; a discharging mechanism for discharging droplets of raw etching barrier resin through at least one discharging nozzle onto a first surface of said semiconductor wafer substrate held on said substrate holding unit; a drive mechanism for displacing at least one of said semiconductor wafer substrate and said discharging nozzle; and a control unit for controlling said discharging mechanism and said drive mechanism such that said raw etching barrier resin is attached to said first surface of said semiconductor wafer substrate, wherein said semiconductor wafer substrate includes a plurality of fuse elements and a dielectric layer having openings corresponding to locations of said plurality of fuse elements, and wherein said control unit controls said discharging mechanism such that said raw etching barrier resin is discharged into at least one selected opening corresponding to a location of at least one of said plurality of fuse elements and is not discharged into at least one unselected opening corresponding to a location of at least another one of said plurality of fuse elements.