
	Where results make sense

Topic: Resolution enhancement technology

Related Topics

information technology

California Institute of Technology

MOS Technologies 6502

History of science and technology

Advanced Technology Attachment

Georgia Institute of Technology

persuasion technology

Royal Institute of Technology

MOS Technologies SID

MOS Technologies

Military technology and equipment

In the News (Fri 17 Feb 12)

EXECUTIVE POWER

Iran

ANALYSIS

Pakistan

Family compact

	RET - Resolution Enhancement Technology, RETurn
		Resolution Enhancement Technology is not the only word formed from RET.
		Every attempt has been made to provide you with the correct acronym for RET.
		If we missed the mark, we would greatly appreciate your help by entering the correct or alternate meaning in the box below.
	www.auditmypc.com /acronym/RET.asp (84 words)

	Resolution Enhancement Technology Encyclopedia Article @ Technicalstuff.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Resolution enhancement technology (RET) is a form of computer hardware technology used to manipulate dot characteristics popular among laser printer and photolithography manufacturers.
		Closely related RET techniques are also used in Wikimedia Foundation's Printing manufacturing technology, in particular in relation to Portals technology.
		Resolution refers to the sharpness of image detail, smoothness of curved lines, and the faithful reproduction of an image.
	www.technicalstuff.com /encyclopedia/Resolution_enhancement_technology (362 words)

	CHAPTER 6.2
		(3) The resolution, orientation, and shape of the dot may all be manipulated.
		The trade-off is resolution: the more gray levels you wish to display, the larger the array necessary, and, therefore, the less resolution available.
		They can enhance the printing resolution from 300 to 600 or 1000 dpi by manipulations of the dot shape and some other tricks with the laser.
	www.prenhall.com /electronic_publishing/html/chapter6/06_2.html (583 words)

	Waves Support & Service: IDR Frequently Asked Questions
		However, as soon as the resolution is pulled back down to 16 bits by rounding or truncation (by removing the bottom 8 bits), the resulting rounding error produces an audible distortion at low signal levels, and a permanent loss of digital resolution that can never be recovered.
		Nevertheless, the technology of IDR2 does have some advantages over IDR1 for high quality mastering as well, and it is a user choice whether the ultimate in low distortion of IDR1 is preferred, or the additional reduction in noise of IDR2.
		IDR technology was specifically designed for use under Digidesign's Sound Designer II environment by Michael Gerzon, a world authority in psychoacoustics and a gold medalist of the AES.
	www.waves.com /german/htmls/service/faq/idr_faq.html (672 words)

	Hewlett-Packard's Resolution Enhancement Technology: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Resolution refers to the sharpness of image detail, the smoothness of curved lines, and the faithful reproduction of a desired image.
		The general public's assumption is that the higher the dpi the better the resolution.
		At the beginning of the laser printer era, the dramatic improvement in print quality between the 160 -200 dpi dot matrix impact printers and 300 dpi laser printers was unmistakable.
	www.rechargermag.com /article.asp?id=199704024 (269 words)

	[No title]
		Introduction IBM has used resolution-enhancement technology (using algorithms and modulation techniques to create the illusion of high-resolution printing on printers with lower resolution than would otherwise be required) in many of its printers since the introduction of the IBM 3820 printer [1] in 1985.
		In this printer, the technology was primarily used to perform antialiasing--improving the appearance of printed text and graphics by smoothing the steps that would otherwise appear in diagonal lines.
		These high resolutions and their corresponding data rates are very difficult to achieve for high-speed printers.) Acknowledgments The author recognizes Jack L. Crawford as the pioneer of print-quality enhancement within IBM.
	www.research.ibm.com /journal/rd/416/stanich.txt (4229 words)

	Higher resolution modelling to boost chip yields: News from Mentor Graphics UK
		These enhancements deliver substantial improvements in the accurate modelling of the application of RET in sub-100nm IC manufacturing processes, and are imperative in the effort to increase customer profitability by improving chip yield and time-to-silicon, especially for the demanding 65nm technology node and beyond.
		RET modelling accuracy becomes increasingly important in the sub-100nm nodes where the process window (parameters at which the process delivers yielding silicon) shrinks dramatically.
		Accurate RET modelling of the complex lithographic system is pivotal in ensuring pattern fidelity despite the distortions that occur in sub-100nm generations, where critical IC features are one-third the wavelength of the exposure equipment.
	www.electronicstalk.com /news/men/men238.html (682 words)

	HP LaserJet III
		The Resolution Enhancement Technology (RET) introduced with the HP LaserJet III represents a technical milestone in the history of desktop laser printers.
		RET uses variable dot sizes to smooth jagged lines and edges on all types of text and graphics.
		Resolution Enhancement Technology works well in the PostScript mode, but you should disable RET when printing scanned images because the dots added by the RET circuitry to smooth the image tend to reduce clarity.
	www.printerpartsonline.com /hp_laserjet_iii.html (1270 words)

	Welcome to Blaze DFM, Inc.
		Bringing design requirements forward into manufacturing means using the actual timing and power constraints supplied by the design team to drive what happens in manufacturing.
		Typically, this is done by interfacing with the resolution enhancement technology (RET) process in manufacturing.
		However, many important sources of variation can be accounted for using an a priori understanding of process technology.
	www.blaze-dfm.com /technology/technology.html (272 words)

	Luminescent Unveils 45- and 32-nm Resolution Enhancement Technology Results Using Inverse Lithography Technology (ILT) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The patented technology is already outperforming the capabilities of state-of-the-art optical proximity correction (OPC) approaches at 65 nm by producing significantly better pattern fidelity and the broadest possible lithography process windows on printed silicon.
		But beyond the technical superiority of this new- generation RET solution, manufacturers are most excited by ILT's potential to enable the use of more-economical 193-nm dry lithography instead of immersion for printing certain 45-nm critical layers.
		It is the only automated resolution enhancement technology (RET) that starts directly with the desired IC pattern on the wafer, explores the entire available optical lithography space by mathematical inversion, and ultimately delivers a manufacturable mask pattern that generates the maximum design fidelity with the broadest possible process window.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-27-2007/0004535284&EDATE= (918 words)

	Investor's Business Daily: Breaking News
		The Image Resolution Enhancement Technology generally relates to the modification of a video or printed display to improve the perceived image quality beyond the basic pixel resolution of the display.
		The CombiMatrix group is developing a platform technology to rapidly produce customizable arrays, which are semiconductor-based tools for use in identifying and determining the roles of genes, gene mutations and proteins.
		Acacia Research-Acacia Technologies (ACTG) and Acacia Research-CombiMatrix (CBMX) are both classes of common stock issued by Acacia Research Corporation and are intended to reflect the performance of the respective operating groups and are not issued by the operating groups.
	investors.com /breakingnews.asp?journalid=46028298 (667 words)

	Business Wire Business News: Acacia Technologies Licenses Image Resolution Enhancement Technology to Dell - MSN Money (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Image Resolution Enhancement Technology generally relates to the modification of a video or printed display to improve the perceived image quality beyond the basic pixel resolution of the display.
		The CombiMatrix group is developing a platform technology to rapidly produce customizable arrays, which are semiconductor-based tools for use in identifying and determining the roles of genes, gene mutations and proteins.
		Acacia Research-Acacia Technologies ACTG and Acacia Research-CombiMatrix CBMX are both classes of common stock issued by Acacia Research Corporation and are intended to reflect the performance of the respective operating groups and are not issued by the operating groups.
	news.moneycentral.msn.com /inc/news/providerredir.asp?Feed=BW&Date=20061121&ID=6215013 (396 words)

	ret \| English \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		RET can refer to the following:Resolution enhancement technology (image processing)An instruction in the x86 assembly language.
		Resolution enhancement technology (RET) is a form of image processing technology used to manipulate dot characteristics popular among laser printer and inkjet printer manufacturers.
		Closely related RET techniques are also used in VLSI photolithography manufacturing technology, in particular in relation to 90 nanometre technology.
	www.babylon.com /definition/ret/English (197 words)

	Print-quality enhancement in electrophotographic printers
		IBM has used resolution-enhancement technology (using algorithms and modulation techniques to create the lower resolution than would otherwise be required) in many of its printers since the introduction of the IBM 3820 printer [1] in 1985.
		Two of the best-known implementations are Resolution Enhancement Technology from Hewlett- Packard [5] and Print Quality Enhancement Technology by Lexmark [6].
		Non-Gaussian writing-spot profiles, for example the arctangent function used by Williams [16], are useful to simulate other printhead technologies such as LED (light-emitting-diode) arrays.
	www.research.ibm.com /journal/rd/416/stanich.html (3684 words)

	Solid State Technology - Product News
		Designers targeting sub-90nm manufacturing technologies can create layout designs that are less sensitive to critical yield-degrading lithography issues and are desensitized to common lithography process variations.
		The gallium-nitride (GaN)-on-diamond Xero Wafer uses technology that enables the GaN layer to be atomically attached to a freestanding, proprietary polycrystalline chemical-vapor-deposited (CVD) diamond substrate (25 μm thick).
		Subnm resolution capability is possible at velocities up to 1 m/sec and axis lengths up to 4 m.
	sst.pennnet.com /articles/article_display.cfm?section=home&article_id=253404&version_num=2&p=5 (1751 words)

	EETimes.com - Cadence rolls RET into flow
		Cadence is targeting Virtuoso first with the RET capability because that full-custom layout editor is often used to create standard cells and memories.
		Virtuoso RET doesn't replace the final, post-route production OPC run; rather, "the strategy is to clean up the incoming data stream, so it's not difficult to correct or modify the structures," Miller said.
		RET Imager uses default process conditions or a process model file (PMF) that provides encrypted lithography information for a given process.
	www.eetimes.com /news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=180200077 (615 words)

	Aprio Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In today’s stepper technology, 193nm lithography is used to ramp up 90nm, 65nm, and 45nm manufacturing processes.
		Instead of merely developing faster tools, Aprio is solving the problem by building technologies for a DFM platform that fundamentally speeds and simplifies the way that RET is applied to mask data.
		Smart algorithms are invented to utilize a reconfigurable and incremental approach on RET generation and verification.
	www.aprio.com /technology.html (507 words)

	HP Press Release: HP Technology Doubles the Resolution of Digital Projection Displays
		HP has filed patent applications related to this resolution enhancement technology, code-named "wobulation," which resulted from extensive work performed by HP's Imaging and Printing Group.
		The resolution enhancement technology is applicable to both front projection and rear projection applications.
		HP's "wobulation" technology is not dependent on a particular SLM technology and is expected to work with future SLM technologies.
	www.hp.com /hpinfo/newsroom/press/2004/040609a.html (478 words)

	SPIE Bookstore
		Optical lithography, like any imaging technology, has resolution limits that are governed in part by the wavelength of the light used to form the images.
		Even though they are not papers on optics, they are the key drivers of RET and advanced optical lithography, and therefore will be of great interest to those working in the field.
		However, they are arguably resolution enhancement techniques, and more development in these areas may further extend the life of optical lithography.
	bookstore.spie.org /index.cfm?fuseaction=DetailVolume&productid=537700 (980 words)

	TechOnline \| Resolution Enhancement Technology: The Past, the Present, and Extensions for the Future
		Definitions and criteria for "resolution" and "resolution enhancement" are discussed, and the primary resolution enhancement techniques (RETs) of OPC, PSM and OAI are categorized according to their control of the fundamental properties of a wave: amplitude, phase, and direction.
		Modern RETs are generally combinations of these primary RETs, leading to increased complexity in RET recipes.
		Although these existing RET solutions may allow optical lithography be extended as far as the 32nm IC node, even more capability may be developed if the fourth variable of an electromagnetic wave, polarization, can be exploited as an additional primary RET as well.
	www.techonline.com /community/tech_group/soc/tech_paper/36297 (240 words)

	ASML: Products - MaskTools - CPL Technology
		CPL Technology can extend the life of 248 and 193 nm dry and immersion processes, protecting existing reticle and lithography technology infrastructure investments.
		It is broadly applicable for logic and memory devices and is primarily designed for critical layers such as gate and contact.
		ASML CPL mask technology uses off-axis illumination and symmetrical phase edges to increase image contrast (resolution).
	www.asml.com /asmldotcom/show.do?ctx=6843&rid=6847 (266 words)

	Products - oemagazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The model 521 laser wavelength m is a cost-effective Michelson interferometer-based technology to measure the absolute wavelength of virtually any CW laser to an accuracy of ± 10 ppm (± 0.01 nm at 1000 nm).
		With a resolution of 96 x 36 pixels and a 1-inch diagonal display size, Osram's Pictiva displays now come in Galaxy-White and Glacier-Blue for mobile phones, with a new 1.2-inch format with 128 x 48 pixels for MP3 players.
		It is intended for situations where the stimulus presented to the subject is restricted to a single surface, such as a computer or video monitor, or where head-mounted optics are not desirable.
	www.oemagazine.com /products (3288 words)

	Pixel Magic's PM-2050 ImageChip Provides Resolution Enhancement for New Laser Printers and MFPs-4; Sharp, QMS, Genicom ...
		Pixel Magic iRET technology is now featured in Sharp digital document systems, QMS magicolor 330 color laser printers, as an option on the QMS 3260 and 4032 business workgroup laser printers, Genicom microLaser 320 workgroup laser printers, and Compaq LN32 business network laser printers.
		The resolution enhancement technology in the PM-2050 was obtained by Pixel Magic through Oak Technology's recent acquisition of Xerographic Laser Images Corporation (XLI).
		The PM-2050 allows QMS to deliver high-quality edge enhancement and enables the QMS magicolor 330 CX and EX, and the QMS 3260 and 4032 printers to output 1200 dpi at their rated print speeds.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1999_March_29/ai_54243607 (900 words)

	Sister Co.
		Company description: Third Dimension Design (TDD) provides proprietary Resolution Enhancement Technology (RET) for optical lithography to enable continued shrinkage of semiconductor chips in the nanometer era.
		Our technology doubles resolution or increases process window and manufacturing yield, which lowers cost of Integrated Circuits (IC).
		Levenson showed with both simulation and experiments that the vortex via-process is able to print 80nm contact-holes at 250nm pitch with 248nm steppers, i.e., two generations more capable than conventional technologies.
	www.cmptechnology.com /sister_co_.htm (354 words)

	Inkjet printer print quality enhancement techniques - design of HP DeskJet 1200C and HP DeskJet 1200C/PS printers - ...
		Five print modes, each optimized for quality and throughput, HP Resolution Enhancement technology, heaters to dry the ink and the paper, and accurate print cartridge alignment and paper advance schemes contribute to the high print quality of the HP Deskjet 1200C printer.
		For example, the printer was to be thermal inkjet with a resolution of 300 dots per inch (dpi).
		It was to be media independent (i.e., not just "special" media) and it was to have four print cartridges (fl, cyan, magenta, and yellow) and most probably fast and high-quality printing options.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0HPJ/is_n1_v45/ai_15058440 (1058 words)

	Special Events - Microlithography 2004 - Program - Conferences - SPIE Web
		As point tools in the design to silicon flow such as layout and physical design, place and route, timing optimization, resolution enhancement application, optical proximity correction, or mask fracturing, become more complex, integration of these tools with each other and with the required technology, process, and tooling information becomes increasingly difficult yet even more paramount.
		Lithography was always a multidisciplinary technology, but immersion adds new dimensions to it, with its requirements on immersion fluid optical constants, polarization aspects of ultra-high NA and tight control of immersion fluid physical and chemical properties.
		NIST Advanced Technology Program (ATP) provides cost shared funding to accelerate the development and broad dissemination of challenging, high-risk technologies that promise significant commercial payoffs and widespread economic benefits for the nation.
	www.spie.org /Conferences/Programs/04/ml/specialevents (1391 words)

	ZBE INC. - Info
		ZBE's hybrid LED imaging technology resulted in the affordable state-of-the-art Chromira 30 and Chromira 50 printers, which produce high resolution continuous digital photographic prints.
		The key to ZBE's LED technology is the use of diamond-shaped pixels.
		All printers "overlap" adjacent pixels so that they won't be seen with a loupe, but this causes a decrease in sharpness and resolution.
	www.zbe.com /info/prs/zbe-pr-led-patent.htm (273 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)