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EIB OEM Product Suite Release History

 

Release Information

 

Version: 6.3
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Customer Support: support.connectivity@peergroup.com

 

What's New in this Release


This release of EIB™ supports the latest version of the Equipment Data Acquisition (Interface A) set of standards, frozen by ISMI in July 2010, known as EDA 0710.

 

EDA 0710 – Equipment Data Acquisition (Interface A)

As manufacturing complexity increases, data collection and analysis is becoming more important. A data collection strategy that allows for high-rate data collection can be achieved using Interface A (EDA). Large data volumes and targeted data collection cannot be supported via traditional SECS/GEM communications.
EIB’s Interface A has been used successfully by a growing list of factories and OEMs since 2005. With version 0710, the industry has driven changes that let OEMs reduce the effort to add Interface A onto any equipment and make it easier for factories to incorporate it into any factory system and improve their data collection strategies.
Along with Interface A, EIB provides equipment manufacturers and factories a single, flexible solution for collecting and reporting data.

Supporting Multiple EDA Standards

EIB provides flexible deployment models, enabling the addition of EDA and support for multiple versions of EDA (1105, 0710) through configuration. OEMs can quickly configure Interface A to meet factory-specific requirements.

Adding Interface A to any Tool

OEMs can quickly add EIB EDA to any tool, regardless of the existing host communications implementation. OEMs can also build a full connectivity solution with EIB offering GEM, GEM 300 and Interface A communications.

Managing EDA Metadata

Metadata describes how the equipment information is represented to the host. It captures the logical structure of the equipment modules and the information associated with those modules. EIB simplifies the creation and sharing of the metadata between the OEM and the factory for offline data collection configuration. With PEER Group’s active involvement in the initiative to create a new standard for the existing metadata guidance, the flexibility needed for equipment modeling is built into EIB.

Testing Interface A

To ensure your Interface A configuration and deployment meets your needs, verification is key. With EIB’s EDA Pro Client application, you can verify host-equipment message interaction during development. In this latest EIB release, the EDA Pro Client has been upgraded to support both the 1105 and 0710 EDA standards and has expanded its tools for data collection plan creation and management as well as metadata management to reduce overall troubleshooting effort.


Managing Multiple 300mm Tools
Previous versions of EIB enabled factories and OEMs to logically model multiple equipment to consolidate communications and control. EIB’s modeling capabilities have been expanded to enable multiple 300mm equipment instances to be represented as one logical tool. This capability provides flexibility to factory station controllers to control and collect data as a unit as well as to equipment makers who need to represent multiple 300mm modules as a single tool to the host.


Managing Consolidated Deployments
Many OEMs and factories are minimizing their hardware requirements and are consolidating their deployment of connectivity solutions on a single server. EIB provides an Administration Suite to effectively manage multiple EIB instances in a centralized deployment model. The Administration Suite provides functionality for starting and stopping applications, monitoring the status of applications and publishing information about applications. The Administration Suite is written explicitly to work with EIB and Fast Framework based applications, but is fully capable of maintaining other applications.

 

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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.


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.

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.

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.

 

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