Design rules for non-Manhattan shapes

Zein Juneidi; Kholdoun Torki; Ridha Hamza

doi:10.1117/12.396432

25 August 2000 Design rules for non-Manhattan shapes

Zein Juneidi, Kholdoun Torki, Ridha Hamza

Proceedings Volume 4174, Micromachining and Microfabrication Process Technology VI; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.396432
Event: Micromachining and Microfabrication, 2000, Santa Clara, CA, United States

Abstract

An approach to MEMS Computer Aided Design tools has been to make use of Integrated Circuits CAD suites with specific enhancements for MEMS designs. Extending the IC Design Rule Checkers to non-manhattan shapes is one of these needed enhancements. IF anecdotally used in IC designs, non- manhattan shapes are intensively used in today state of the art MEMS products. High performance gyroscopes and yaw rate sensor made in surface micromachining processes feature spiral springs and torsional combdrives made of toroidal fingers. Applying classical DRCs to these layouts generate thousands of false errors. The errors are false because they do not affect the manufacturability of the device. But because of their number, they prevent the designers from detecting real errors in their layout. Most false errors are generated by rounding floating point vertices' coordinates, translating different data types and snapping points to a grid. This paper presents a new methodology to eliminate false errors generated by the DRC of non-manhattan shapes. This methodology includes adding a tolerance factor to Microsystem design rules with respect to the geometric properties of non-manhattan shapes and the manufacturing grid parameters, closely control the vertices coordinates when automatically generating the non manhattan shapes and control the snapping on the grid. This methodology has been implemented in MEMSCAP Microsystem engineering kits and has been validated for three foundries design rules: BOSCH, SensoNor, and AMS.

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Zein Juneidi, Kholdoun Torki, and Ridha Hamza "Design rules for non-Manhattan shapes", Proc. SPIE 4174, Micromachining and Microfabrication Process Technology VI, (25 August 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.396432

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