Semiconductor Industry

Equipment Data Collection with Semi EDA
Standards in a Factory-Wide Environment

EDA interfaces on the equipment side (see CenterPoint | portA) require an appropriate EDA client able to deal with hundreds of data reports, multiple clients, and EDA enabled equipment in the factory.

CenterPoint has considered this requirement seriously and has taken the challenge to integrate in its current family of products a product without comparison. The CenterPoint | EDAfactoryController is such application that provides the needed architecture for a fab-wide EDA data collection and client management.

CenterPoint’s EDAfactoryController enables the user to manage all EDA compliant equipment and helps integrate them into the user’s current architecture from a central application without affecting current data processing and data distribution systems. CenterPoint’s solution to the EDA interface has been the implementation of an architecture that removes the possibility of creating a potential bottleneck to handle the data collected from processing equipment and distributing it to the appropriate client or application.

Our EDA-client is an open architecture that integrates effortless into the user’s existing landscape of applications expecting data from equipment in the factory (e.g. MES, APC, FDC, OEE etc.). Using the newly developed EDA interface for the semiconductor industry could be a good reason to improve the existing set of applications used for factory automation.

CenterPoint | EDAfactoryController is the right solution that provides with the required flexibility to acquire data from EDA in a fab-wide architecture and to function as distributor to the applications already in place. In addition to that, the CenterPoint | EDAfactoryController provides capabilities for data processing, data analysis, data mining and rule-based decision making used with off-the-shell CenterPoint products. This product is not only easy to install and use, but also capable of providing you with additional functionality that may be missing in your current environment.

• Efficient data acquisition using SEMI’s EDA Standard Suite
• Outstanding performance consuming and distributing data
• Central application management for all equipment in your factory
• Centralized data collection plan management fab-wide
• Centralized equipment metadata management fab-wide
• Centralized management of authorization and authentication fab-wide
• Includes graphical workbench for data distribution scenarios
• Open Architecture easy to integrate into existing environment
• Extendable to automated process control platform

High Performance

• Collecting 100.000 data values per second from multiple equipments through a single EDA client service.

Standards Compliance

• EDAFactoryController uses the most recent adopted SEMI EDA Standards

Management, Maintenance and Control

• Central Management of ACLs
• Integration with CenterPoint‘s authentication and authorization service coming soon
• Centralized or distributed management of multiple equipment connections (EDA-Ports)
• Repository, editing and distribution of data collection plans
• Repository and sharing of equipment Metadata
• Factory wide management of equipment information (URLs, ACLs, DCPs and metadata for internal and external clients)
• Integrated Database Tracing

Extensibility

• Connectivity to multiple EDA-Ports via a scaleable set of EDA data client services (service-based EDA client instances)
• User defined data distribution scenarios with integrated workbench

Integratibility

• Layered architecture for seamless integration with any third-party message bus (CenterPoint\Integration Suite)
• TibRv, MS.net, MS COM+ connectivity available
• Other protocols and transports easy to provide upon request
• Dynamic WSDL support with possibilities to integrate UDDI features for web service discovery
• Multiple semiconductor formats available beside EDA (SEMI G85, STDF, KLARF)

Scalability

• Easy to enhance performance by attaching single EDA data client as needed
• Clustering support coming soon

Other Features

• Integrated Metadata Builder (customize metadata names)

Have a look at our other products including the APC\Platform. The APC\Platform also provides specific methodologies for data processing, data analysis, data mining and rule-based decision making. This product can easily be used to implement the functionality missing in your current environment.