Release Information

 

Version:	6.2
Release Date:	July 6, 2011
Customer Support:	support.connectivity@peergroup.com

 

What's New in this Release

This release of EIB™ supports the newest SEMI standards demanded by the most advanced manufacturers in the semiconductor, LED and solar industries. With a continued focus on expanding interface support and reducing the time and effort to deploy EIB, we have added several enhancements based on customer requests.

 

SEMI E148 – Specification for Time Synchronization and Definition of the TS-Clock Object

The E148 standard is used to synchronize equipment computer clocks within a factory where the equipment provides time-sensitive data that requires date and time accuracy across multiple factory components.

The time resolution and time server source requirements will vary across equipment makers and factories, making it important for connectivity solutions to support customers integrating their preferred time server solution to meet their time synchronization needs.

 

SEMI E157- Specification for Module Process Tracking

The E157 standard reports process-related data during the execution of a recipe at a processing location, which provides important context data to support applications that optimize yields and improve overall factory performance.

 

SEMI PV2- Guide for PV equipment Communication Interfaces (PVECI)

The PV2 standard is based on E30 (GEM), providing a proven equipment automation standard refined for photovoltaic manufacturing.
 

OPC Interface

OPC is a common communications interface used by equipment vendors in the Solar industry. The OPC Data Access Client interface introduced in EIB 6.1, which provides data collection capabilities out of the box, has been further extended to provide customizable remote control, recipe handling, control state and terminal support through an OPC server. As with other customizable features of EIB, we have provided a code sample to make it easy to take advantage of EIB’s capabilities.

 

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Release Information

Version:	6.1
Release Date:	November 10, 2010
Customer Support:	support.connectivity@peergroup.com

 

What's New in this Release
This release of EIB™ focuses on expanding operating system support to include Microsoft® Windows® 7 and Windows Server 2008, providing versions of the product that support integration with 32-bit or 64-bit implementations, reducing the time and effort required to build and deploy equipment models, expanding SECS/GEM capabilities when used for in-tool integration with the equipment control system, and several product enhancements based on customer requests.

Operating System Support

EIB now supports Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit), Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Server 2008 R2, in addition to Windows XP SP3 and Windows Server 2003 SP2.

 

Native 64-bit Support

Users can now take advantage of the latest advances in computer hardware and operating systems using the native 64-bit version of EIB. 

Increased Equipment Model Creation and Deployment Efficiency

Creating reusable and extendable tool models has never been faster with features that include:

• Model Builder’s new drag-and-drop user-interface, which includes integrated online help that provides information about how to perform specific tasks.
• Model creation wizards that provide users with a base tool model tailored to their deployment needs – host, EDA or in-tool GEM solutions.
• Integrated automation tools - Auto Model Builder and Composite Model Creator - to query configurations directly from the equipment and to combine individual equipment models into a linked model configuration.
• Importing capabilities that leverage your existing tool configurations in PEER Factory Acceptance Tester (PFATTM) and GWGEM®, creating your equipment model automatically.
• Model Builder’s new override capabilities, which allow users to define a single tool model that can then be deployed to specific instances where slight customizations are required, such as specifying the IP address, TCP port, and Device ID of a SECS/GEM interface.

You can ensure that your model has been configured correctly prior to deployment using Model Builder’s enhanced validation capabilities, which inspects and verifies the entire model.

OPC Interface 
OPC is a common communications interface used by equipment vendors in the Solar industry. EIB, which is able to communicate via any protocol, has expanded its set of predefined communications interfaces to support OPC, in addition to SECS and ASCII. The new OPC Data Access Client interface provides data collection capabilities out of the box and can be extended to meet specific tool requirements.

EIB GEM Interface

EIB now provides equipment manufacturers with a .NET SECS/GEM connectivity solution that eases the task of equipment-to-host communication implementation, while complying with the SEMI Generic Equipment Model (GEM) standard. EIB supports 100% of SECS/GEM capabilities as specified in the latest published E30 SEMI standard.Equipment manufacturers can now publish module and equipment level performance tracking as specified in the latest published E116 SEMI standard. EIB now supports transferring large recipes and data sets using Stream 13 data sets, as defined in E5 and E30. Recipe and data set requests may originate with the Host or the ECS. Large recipes support both upload and download.