US Patent on data mining and semiconductor fabrication

Title: System and method for rule-based data mining and problem detection for semiconductor fabrication

Patent ID: US7650251
Issue Date: January 19, 2010

Abstract:

A fabrication history a group of wafers is provided, having a record for each wafer of the manufacturing events that did or did not occur in its fabrication, and having the measured value of a given target. A binary decision rule is formed based on the fabrication history, the rule being that if a wafer has a particular pattern of manufacturing events in its fabrication history then the statistic of the given fabrication target for that wafer is a first value; otherwise, the statistic is a second value having at least a given distance from the first value. The pattern of manufacturing events in the binary decision rule is identified in the generation of the binary decision rule. The identified pattern is significant with respect to the given target.

Inventor(s):

• Baseman; Robert J. (Brewster, NY, US)
• Tipu; Fateh A. (Wappingers Falls, NY, US)
• Weiss; Sholom M. (New York, NY, US)

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