International Business Machines Corporation
Electrical mask validation

Abstract:

An embodiment of the invention may include a method for ensuring semiconductor design integrity. The method may include analyzing a photomask design for a semiconductor circuit. The photomask may include a primary electrical design necessary for the operation of the semiconductor circuit, and white space, which has no primary electrical design. The method may include inserting a secondary electrical design into the white space of the photomask design for the semiconductor circuit. The secondary electrical design may have known electrical properties for validating the semiconductor circuit design.