Data processing: generic control systems or specific application – Specific application – apparatus or process – Product assembly or manufacturing
Reexamination Certificate
2006-05-23
2006-05-23
Bahta, Kidest (Department: 2125)
Data processing: generic control systems or specific application
Specific application, apparatus or process
Product assembly or manufacturing
C700S028000, C451S134000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07050880
ABSTRACT:
The invention provides a model-based control approach to chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP) control. The preferred embodiment comprises mathematical models of the CMP process. These models play a critical role in obtaining superior control performance. Model-based Control Design involves the construction of a dynamic mathematical model of the system to be controlled, e.g. a removal rate model of a CMP system. The model can then be evaluated via computer simulations, and validated using data from the system. The invention provides a method and apparatus that processes in-situ data from a suite of real-time sensors and produces real-time commands to multiple actuators, such as applied pressures, slurry-flow rate, and wafer/pad velocity. A key aspect of the invention is an integrated model-based pressure-temperature-velocity-slurry flow control system that includes many innovations in real-time mode identification, real-time gain estimation, and real-time control.
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de Roover Dirk
Ebert Jon Lloyd
Emami-Naeini Abbas
Bahta Kidest
Glenn Michael A.
Glenn Patent Group
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