Inverse Explorer™
Computes an optimum mask for each input target, by systematically varying the design target, and determines design rules by exploring the limits of the lithography solution space.
FEATURED
With device geometries shrinking to sizes well below the wavelength used to image them (e.g., 22nm geometry being imaged with 193nm wavelength), model-based evaluation is iterative and extremely computing resource intensive. Rule tables tend grow exponentially with each subsequent generation.


