Release Information

 

Version:	1.9
Release Date:	November 16, 2011
Customer Support:	Email questions to support.connectivity@peergroup.com

 

What's New in this Release

This 1.9 release of NexEDA™ supports the newest SEMI standards demanded by manufacturers in the semiconductor, LED, solar, and MEMS industries.

SEMI E109 – Specification for Reticle and Pod Management (RPMS) 

The E109 standard is used by lithography, reticle inspection and bare reticle stocker equipment to define reticle and reticle pod transfers to and from the equipment as well as reticle movement within the equipment.

The implementation of E109 can vary from full E109 support to using E109 to transfer reticles on the front end while using traditional 300mm E94 and E40 commands for reticle movement and processing within the tool.

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.

Development Environment Support 

NexEDA is continuing to stay current with development environments and has added Visual Studio® 2010 to its list of supported environments and sample solutions.

General Improvements 

We resolved several customer-logged issues and requests for NexEDA.  Please contact us for details.

Version Compatibility 

NexEDA 1.9 is fully compatible with equipment control solutions developed with NexEDA 1.8.

Release Information

 

Version:	1.8
Release Date:	December 15, 2010
Customer Support:	Email questions to support.connectivity@peergroup.com

 

What's New in this Release

This release of NexEDA™ is an upgrade release with a focus on expanding operating system support, reducing the time and effort required to build and deploy equipment models, improving installation and licensing, and enhancing the product based on customer requests and defect fixes.
 

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

Integration Improvements 

Creating reusable and extendable tool models for Interface A (EDA) capabilities has never been faster with enhancements that include:

• Provides Data on Demand by allowing simultaneous equipment connections by manufacturing applications
• Model Builder’s new drag-and-drop user-interface which includes integrated online help.
• Model creation wizards tailor tool models to deployment needs.
• Integrated automation tools to build tool models directly by querying configuration from the equipment.
• Importing capabilities that leverage your existing tool configurations in PEER Factory Acceptance Tester (PFAT™) and GWGEM®, creating your equipment model automatically.
• Model Builder’s new override capability reduces model management and deployment effort.
• Enhanced model validation eliminates encountering configuration errors at run time.

General Improvments 

We have resolved several customer logged issues and requests for GEM and GEM300 capabilities. Please contact us for details.

Version Compatibility 

NexEDA 1.8 is fully compatible with equipment control solutions developed with NexEDA 1.7.