Patents Examined by Aditiya Bhat
  • Patent number: 6799130
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a tool for analyzing by priority a defect having a high possibility of causing an electrical failure when inspecting a particle and a pattern defect in a piece of work which constitutes an electronic device such as a semiconductor integrated circuit, and relates to a system therefor. On the basis of the result of comparison between defect information which is the result of inspection by an inspection tool and layout data stored in an auxiliary storage device, or on the basis of the result of reinspection by comparison between a defect and a wiring pattern as a background by an inspection processing operation unit, an object to be reviewed is selected using review conditions stored in the auxiliary storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi Okabe, Shunji Maeda, Kaoru Sakai