Patent Document ID: 20130174102
Application ID: 13338331
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An intelligent defect diagnosis method for manufacturing fab, comprising: receiving pluralities of defect data from at least one defect inspection tool, pluralities of design layouts generated from a profile design system, and pluralities of fabrication data produced in the fab; analyzing the defect data, design layouts, and the fabrication data by a defect analysis system, wherein the analyzing step further contains the following sub-steps: segmenting and grouping the design layouts into pluralities of multi-pattern group cells to construct Layout Pattern Group (LPG) cell based pattern groups; introducing the defect data; segmenting defect image into pluralities of defect and pattern contours; mapping the defect data to each multi-pattern group cells to form the LPG based defect composite pattern groups, and identifying the frequent failure defect layout pattern; performing coordinate conversion and image pattern match between image pattern contour and design layout for coordinate correction; fulfilling Critical Area Analysis (CAA) with defect contour, pattern contour or design layout polygon, and obtaining corresponding defect yield; classifying the defect type of defect data through defect image classification analysis.