Patent ID: 8127255

Claim:
A method of characterizing an organic substrate including a plurality of circuit layers, the method comprising the steps of: receiving an image of the organic substrate, the image including a geometric description of the plurality of circuit layers of the substrate; segmenting the organic substrate into a plurality of processing regions based, at least in part, on geometric coordinates of circuit structures defined in the image of the substrate; generating a circuit layer image corresponding to a selected one of the processing regions of the substrate; identifying one or more geometric features in the circuit layer image; estimating at least one thermomechanical property of the circuit layer image as a function of the one or more identified geometric features; repeating the steps of receiving an image, generating a circuit layer image, identifying one or more geometric features in the circuit layer image, and estimating at least one thermomechanical property of the circuit layer image until all circuit layers in the substrate have been processed; and generating a three-dimensional representation of the selected one of the processing regions of the substrate including the plurality of circuit layer images as a function of the at least one thermomechanical property of each of the plurality of circuit layer images, wherein the method steps are performed by a computer.