System and method for customized tape-out requests for integrated circuit manufacturing
AssigneeTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
InventorsPiao-Chuo Tsao, Shu-Ling Feng, Yi-Hong Tseng
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides a system and method for a tape-out request. In one example, the method includes receiving initial information from a customer and loading a mask tooling template based on the initial information. A mask tooling form may be customized based on metal layer information provided by the customer via the mask tooling template and answers to questions provided to the customer. The method may then generate logical operations based on information received from the customer via the mask tooling form.
Claims30
A computer-executable method for receiving a tape-out request for an integrated circuit design and generating tape-out information based on the request, the method comprising:
- receiving technology information identifying a technology for the tape-out request;
- loading a mask tooling (MT) template for the technology and loading a special technology information (STI) template containing questions based on the received information;
- receiving metal layer information defining at least one metal layer for the design and receiving answers to the questions;
- generating a customized MT form based on the received metal layer information and answers;
- receiving masking information via the customized MT form;
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- generating one or more logical operations based on the received masking information.
A system for receiving a tape-out request for an integrated circuit design and generating tape-out information based on the request, the system comprising:
- a tape-out request system having at least one processor accessible to at least one memory containing a plurality of mask tooling templates, mask layer information, logical operation information, and technology questions;
- a network accessible to the tape-out request system;
- a customer interface accessible to the tape-out request system via the network and configured to receive customer entered information;
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- a plurality of instructions for execution by the processor, the instructions including:
- instructions for receiving information identifying a technology for the tape-out request;
- instructions for loading a mask tooling (MT) template based on the received information;
- instructions for receiving metal layer information defining at least one metal layer for the design;
- instructions for generating a customized MT form based at least partially on the received metal layer information;
- instructions for receiving masking information via the customized MT form;
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- instructions for generating one or more logical operations based on the received masking information.
A computer-executable method for generating tape-out information for a tape-out request, the method comprising:
- receiving initial information from a customer;
- loading a mask tooling template based on the initial information;
- customizing a mask tooling form based on metal layer information provided by the customer and answers to questions provided to the customer;
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- generating logical operations based on information received from the customer via the mask tooling form.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.