PortA

Add EDA data collection to GEM and GEM300-compliant equipment control systems developed in C/C++

portA is an EDA / Interface A server for publishing EDA data from GEM and GEM300-compliant equipment control systems on Linux.

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High-volume data transfer

The portA™ product provides SEMI EDA capabilities for enabling OEMs to deliver high-volume data to factory systems. As manufacturing complexity increases and facilities adopt Smart Manufacturing capabilities, data collection and analysis are becoming more important. portA helps OEMs become Smart Manufacturing-ready.

portA Capability chart
SEMI Capability Operating System Integration Interface
SECS-I SECS-II SECS/GEM GEM300 EDA / Interface A Windows Linux
  C/C++

EDA standards compliant

portA complies to the SEMI EDA standards. It provides flexible support for both EDA freeze versions I and II (1105, 0710). The 0710 implementation provides equipment manufacturers with a simplification of metadata construction and improved efficiencies for data collection and analysis.

portA runs on Linux operating systems. See the list of supported technologies for details.

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Product releases

Latest release

Version: 6.5|Release Date: December 17, 2025

What's new

Overview

Secure Authentication Enhancements: To enable integration with the certificate manager when implementing EDA secure authentication, a new API has been introduced that supports rotating equipment certificates at runtime. This enhancement improves security and simplifies certificate lifecycle management.

Several enhancements and customer-reported issues have been addressed in this release.

Supported technologies

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (x64) with GCC 14.2.1 or higher.

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Previous releases

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Supported SEMI Standards

portA supports the following SEMI Standards

Supported technologies

portA supports the following technologies
Operating system Development environment
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (x64)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (x64)
  • GCC 14.2.1 or higher
  • GCC 8.2 or higher

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