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 Fast FW™ and 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 as well as expands equipment modeling capabilities and Fast FW job management.

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.

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.

 

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 FAST FW™ and 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 station controllers, 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)

he 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 version 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 Fast FW™ and 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, and several product enhancements based on customer requests.

Operating System Support

Fast FW and EIB now support 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 SP1.

 

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 Fast FW and EIB.

Increasing Manufacturing Flexibility through Dynamic Data Collection

Data collection clients can now dynamically manage the event report definitions they are interested in. Clients can enable/disable pre-defined data collection plans or create new plans dynamically based on manufacturing needs, significantly increasing data collection flexibility.

Managing Large Scale Deployments

Factories can now reduce the overall time required to start several manufacturing cells in parallel through Fast FW’s enhanced administration suite, which provides application activation and monitoring for single deployments and distributed environments.

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.