SuMMIT Features






For more information on these features please refer our online help pages
  • Load wide variety of image data
    • Tiff, BMP, jpeg, gif, png, ras, ppm, hdf, pcx, xwd, bpm, pgm
    • Prolith AIM files
    • DI AFM files
    • Zygo Interferometer files
    • Load any image data directly from clipboard
    • New file types available upon request
  • Pattern Rec for device-level LER or CD measurements
  • Contact-analysis capabilities
  • Corner-rounding measurement capabilities
  • Process-window analysis capabilities
  • Surface analysis tool, detrending, 2D PSD, isotropic PSD, integrated roughness, flare ...
  • Region of interest (ROI) processing
    • Line-based ROIs
    • Rectangle-based ROIs
    • Multiple simulateous ROI processing
    • Automated ROI array generation capabilities
    • Extensive ROI interactive editing capabilities
  • Batch mode operation
    • Export batch data to CSV
    • Inetegrated batch data plot tool for easy visualization of large data sets
    • Threshold batch tool for automated through threshold analysis
    • Automation to simultaneously measure both lines and spaces with built in reporting
  • Compound data analysis
    • Automatically combine multiple images into single analysis dataset
    • Built in data visualization capabilities for easy report generation on large data sets
  • Scripting language support
  • Export "cleaned-up" processed image as tiff or Prolith mask file
  • Synthesize SEM images of lines with LER and export image as tiff or Prolith mask file
    • Stochastic resist modeling capabilities to synthesize resist images from aerial image data based on given resist parameters
  • Results storage, retrieval, and export.
    • Save and reload calculation results to/from Matlab ".mat" files.
    • Export results to Excel-compatible ".csv" files.
    • Export results to Matlab command window (requires developers kit)
    • All plots can be exported as raw data or graphics and sent to clipboard for easy report generation
  • Automatic calibration from most LEO and Hitachi SEM files (new formats available on request)
  • Various manual calibration methods
  • Built-in image processing
    • Image rotation
    • Negative image
    • Image cropping
    • Image filtering
    • Image detrending
    • Processed image export
  • View zoom capabilities
  • User-configurable preferences
  • Automatic, semi-automatic, and manual fence positioning
  • Numerous built-in processing algorithms
    • User-selectable threshold
    • User-selectable threshold detection algorithm
    • User-selectable line-edge interpolation algorithm
    • User-selectable outlier handling
    • Line-edge-data post processing options
  • Recipe creating storage and retrieval capabilities
  • User-defined algorithm presets for convenient recall of settings
  • User-Defined processing function capabilities (requires developers kit)
  • Integrated visualization
    • Lineout plots of SEM image
    • Interactive threshold-setting plot of resist lines
    • CD as a function of length along line
    • Line-edge position as a function of length along line for easy outlier detection
    • Spectral visualization
    • Processed line-image visualization
    • Line-edge overlay on SEM image and processed line image
  • Inegrated spectral analysis
    • High-pass, low-pass, band-pass, and notch filtering of LER spectrum
    • Automatic PSD noise-floor estimation
  • Integrated line-image pre-filtering options
  • Advanced LER Metrics
    • Height-height correlation function
    • Sigma versus length function
    • PSD slope calculation
    • Correlation length calculation
    • Roughness exponent calculation
    • Automatic PSD noise-floor estimation
    • System noise estimation tool
  • Integrated interactive fence metrology
  • Integrated interactive line-out metrology

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