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There is general trend toward larger chip size and tighter layout due
to customer requests of loading more and more Functions on single chip
. This trend makes yield difficult to be maintained high enough, since
larger amount of defects are distributed on such large and tight-rule
d chips. To overcome such a situation, RADLYS (RAnDom Logic Yield Simu
lator) and DD-TEG (Defect Density TEG) have been developed. DD-TEG ext
racts defect size distribution and its amount automatically, while RAD
LYS simulates defects on any layout and outputs yield based on the ext
racted defect size distribution. Critical layout from yield point of v
iew can be found in this procedure. DD-TEG and RADLYS are used as a se
t of parameter extraction and simulation of the SPICE. In this paper,
we introduce these tools and showed two application results. The predi
cted yield showed a good agreement with the actual yield in the first
application (Optical Device A). Critical layout at the Local I/O porti
on was found in the second application (Random Logic portion of Memory
Device B) and the layout was changed based on the RADLYS results.